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Moldova's Constitutional Court decided: Parliament must be dissolved

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As Infotag has already reported, two weeks ago the country's Acting president and Speaker of Parliament Mihai Ghimpu filed an inquiry with the Court concerning whether or not the incumbent Parliament may and must be dissolved in the present-day specific conditions. He sent the inquiry after the September 5 constitutional referendum on amending the presidential election procedure had been recognized null and void due to a low voter turnout.

Yet before receiving Ghimpu's inquiry, the Constitutional Court had already twice confirmed that a parliament, which fails to elect president in two attempts, is subject to disbandment "within a reasonable timeframe". Considering this question yet last March 16, the Constitutional Court applied for explanations to the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, which recommended introducing amendments to the Constitution concerning election of president not at a referendum but in parliament, through achieving a political compromise between parliamentary parties. However, such compromise was not reached, the ruling coalition resolutely decided to hold a referendum no matter what price, but it turned not valid because the turnout was only 30.29% instead of the necessary minimum of 33.33%.

The Constitutional Court then confirmed the rightfulness of the actions by Moldova's Acting President, Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu and the governing Alliance for European Integration, who maintained that the Parliament might be dissolved not earlier than 12 months since the dissolution of the previous forum.

According to the Court's judgment, the parliament dissolution deadline expired last June 16. However, it turned out that not a single legislative act in Moldova indicates a deadline for issuing a presidential decree on dissolving a parliament that failed to elect president. In May 2010, the Constitutional Court permitted to hold a constitutional referendum, but once again recommended to dissolve the current parliament "within a reasonable timeframe, irrespective of a referendum outcome". After the September 5 referendum failure, forum dissolution and an early parliamentary election have become inevitable.

Mihai Ghimpu stated to the press on Monday that if the Constitutional Court issues on September 21 a positive decision on parliament dissolution, he would sign a parliament-disbandment decree on September 26 or 27 and would set an election date for November 28 because by law an election campaign must be minimum 60 days long.

Announcing the long-waited decision today, CC Chairman Dumitru Pulbere said that the Court established that there exist all prerequisites for dissolving the present Parliament and appointing a date for parliamentary elections.

Pulbere stressed that this Parliament failed twice to elect the head of state - on October 23 and December 9, 2009, that this CC judgment was voted for unanimously, though one judge formulated an 'individual opinion', which will be published in the press together with the Court's main decision.

The CC decision is final and without appeal. It comes into effect from the moment of its adoption, and will be shortly published in the Monitorul Oficial governmental paper. From the adoption moment, Acting President Mihai Ghimpu must issue a decree on parliament dissolution and appointing an election date.

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