Civil servants regain right to appeal to administrative courts

A number of civil servants regained the right to appeal to administrative courts under a decision passed by the Constitutional Court on December 21, Info-Prim Neo reports. This May, the Parliament adopted amendments to the legislation that banned some of the civil servants, who are considered representatives of the special public interest, to appeal to administrative courts. A group of Communist MPs filed an application to the Constitutional Court, demanding that it examine the constitutionality of those amendments. The PCRM’s jurist Serghei Sarbu said the Constitutional Court’s decision represents an additional proof that the former Parliament, during a year and a half, adopted laws that suited the government. The Court’s president Dumitru Pulbere said the decision is aimed at ensuring civil servants’ access to justice. He specified that the President of Moldova, the Head of Parliament, the Prime Minister and the ministers cannot appeal to administrative or constitutional courts. The decision applies to the presidents, vice presidents and judges of courts, presidents and members of the Supreme Council of Magistrates, the Audit Office, the Broadcasting Coordination Council, the Central Election Commission, prosecutors and deputy prosecutors generals directors and vice directors of the Security and Information Service and the State Main Tax Inspectorate, governors and deputy governors of the central bank, ombudspersons, etc. The Constitutional Court also regained the right to have control over the examination of public documents with private and political character.