The leader of the Socialist parliamentary group Corneliu Furculiță filed an application to the Constitutional Court whereby the judges are informed about the inexistence of the circumstances for dissolving Parliament and the existence of a formalized parliamentary majority that proposed a candidate for Prime Minister. “At the current stage, there is a parliamentary majority from the angle of the assessments of the Constitutional Court and the Venice Commission, which envision the impossibility of dissolving the legislature for the actions for which it is blamed,” runs the application that is quoted by IPN.
The leader of the Socialist group noted that the President was informed about the existence of an absolute formalized parliamentary majority, including during the consultations with the parliamentary groups, but Maia Sandu issued a decree by which she nominated Igor Grosu for premiership. “This was done even if none of the parliamentary groups proposed this candidate,” the Party of Socialists says in a press release.
President Maia Sandu said Parliament failed to vote in a Government by two attempts within 45 days of the first request to invest the candidate for Prime Minister and more than three months have passed since the Chicu Government resigned. Therefore, the legal circumstances for dissolving Parliament appeared and the Constitutional Court was asked to ascertain these circumstances. In a press briefing, President Sandu said that as the Constitution provides, she had consultations with the parliament groups to discuss the political situation in the country and the eventual dissolution of Parliament.
