ACUM MP NAMES CONSTITUTIONAL COURT’S JUDGMENT “A GROSS DEVIATION FROM CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS”

Lawyer Sergiu Litvinenco of the parliamentary political bloc ACUM has qualified the Wednesday’s judgment by the Constitutional Court – that the President may not nominate a candidate for prime minister in the absence of the Parliament’s governing bodies – as “a gross deviation from constitutional norms”.

Litvinenco wrote in the social networks that according to the Constitution, “the President nominates a candidacy for prime minister after consultations with parliamentary factions”, and that the Main Law does not demand to necessarily have governing bodies for this.

The ACUM lawyer also referred to a CC Resolution of 2015 reading that “The President’s right to nominate a prime ministerial candidacy is his constitutional obligation”.

“In other words, in this particular case this is not a right, but an obligation, moreover – a constitutional obligation. The Court’s logic is as follows: the formation of Government in 2016 by the votes of 51-of-101 [most of whom were turncoats – ‘political migrants’ to the ruling Democratic Party] was constitutionally valid, and in 2019 – already not valid. So, the Wednesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court has nothing to do either with provisions of the Main Law or even with the own judgments of the Constitutional Court itself”, believes the ACUM lawyer.