Socialist MPs submitted three challenges to the Constitutional Court, asking it to pronounce on the constitutionality of the investiture of the Government including by the votes of future ministers who were then MPs, on the method of establishing polling places abroad and on the entrusting of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology with the task of examining applications for nationality, IPN reports.
In the first of the three challenges, the Socialist MPs remind that the candidates for the post of minister on the current Cabinet were in parallel lawmakers who took part in the voting in of the Government of which they were to form part.
The second challenge concerns the voting abroad. Starting with last year, the citizens of Moldova who live and work abroad and want to take part in the elections must register beforehand on a special website, while the authorities take decisions as to the number of polling places that will be opened abroad based on these registrations. The Socialists consider that this is a violation of the human rights as voting in elections is everyone’s right, not only of those who register on the website.
The Socialists also challenged an article of the Law on the Nationality of the Republic of Moldova by which a new power was given to the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, which was earlier the prerogative of the head of state. The Ministry was empowered to examine applications for nationality.
