Politics

PRESIDENT DODON AGAIN SUSPENDED FROM HIS POST TO LET MAJORITY PROMULGATE SOME LAWS

10 december, 2018

Moldova President Igor Dodon has been once again suspended from his position by the decision of the Constitutional Court taken on Monday on the request of two Deputy Chairmen of the ruling Democratic Party - Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu and MP Sergiu Sirbu.

Presenting the inquiry at the Court Session, Sergiu Sirbu stated that President Dodon had once again failed to fulfill his constitutional duties namely he refused to promulgate 5 laws, which the Parliament had voted for repeatedly. Meanwhile, he stressed, the President is eligible to reject Parliament-approved laws only once, and MUST promulgate them if the Parliament had approved them for a second time.

The inquiry initiators explained that the said 5 documents are the new Code of Television and Radio Broadcasting Services, the Law on declaring May 9 as the Europe Day in Moldova, the Law on selling the former National Stadium territory to the American side for building a new United States Embassy in downtown Chisinau. The President has refused also to promulgate several amendments to the Labor Code and to the Law on the Carabineer Troops. According to the latter amendment, the Carabineer Troops, currently being subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior, shall now be transferred over under the direct jurisdiction of the Government. Igor Dodon refused to promulgate this latter law because now he believes the Carabineers will be used for dispersing peaceful manifestations.

The decision on suspending the head of state has been taken already for the 5th time since October 2017. One time Igor Dodon was suspended to promulgate the disputable Law on struggle against foreign propaganda, and 4 times - to appoint ministers of government, who were rejected by the President but re-proposed by the Prime Minister.

The suspension works only for as long as it is necessary to put a signature under a paper by the Parliament Speaker, who is appointed as an Acting President for the 10-15 minutes.

Each such time Speaker Andrian Candu was stating that the Parliament is eligible to initiate such a temporary dismissal of the President "who would not care to fulfill his duties", calling President Dodon's behavior as "defiant".

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