After an barrage of heated debates around the July electoral system change, today’s OG finally publishes the amended Election Code, although the Law that introduced the change required the publishing within two months. The delay could be explained (in the absence of any official clarifications) by the great number of other laws affected by the amendment.

In the part dedicated to Presidential Decrees, the one standing out is whereby President Igor Dodon formally approves the resignation of six Cabinet members following a reshuffle. Meanwhile, the president vetoed the new nominations and thus exposed himself to an ad-hoc suspension by the Constitutional Court.

The existing institutional blockage will surely create some problems, but not to the extent of rendering the Cabinet nonfunctional: we learn from the OG that the Cabinet approved a set of civil protection measures for 2018 (#1092), and a number of secondary legislation documents in various areas. Two of them concern electronic signatures, in particular their certification by specific service providers (#1140) and their use by public entities (#1141).

The Cabinet also approved the Regulation to subsidize job creation (#1145) in a bid to increase employment and curb migration. Each new job created by eligible companies in 2018 will be subsidized by 40.000 lei.