“A referendum is the legal instrument by means of which the people can participate directly in governance. No one has the right to limit the people's right to exercise the sovereignty which belongs to them. Therefore the Moldovan Parliament has every right to hold a constitutional referendum where the people could express their will in a major issue for society”, argued Liberal MP Victor Popa in a statement quoted by Info-Prim Neo. Popa, who is a doctor of constitutional right, recalls that the Constitution provides that national sovereignty belongs to the people, who exercise it directly and through its representative bodies. “Hence, no one, either within the country or from abroad, by no action or act can limit the people in any of its rights, because that would amount to limiting the people's sovereignty. Sovereignty, the political power that belongs to the people, is intangible and inalienable. Only the people itself can surrender some of its rights by means of a referendum”. The Liberal has further stated that any decision adopted in the referendum will have a supreme legal power, and it won't need any approval or confirmation from Parliament. Earlier, the leaders of the ruling Eurointegration Alliance announced that a nationwide constitutional referendum would be conducted until late April in an attempt to ease the rules for electing the president and install a genuinely parliamentary system. Many experts and politicians received the proposal with criticism, including by branding it anti-constitutional.