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LDPM APPEALS TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT AGAINST DUAL CITIZENSHIP LAW
Chisinau. The oppositional Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova has lodged an appeal with the Constitutional Court, requesting it to urgently examine the constitutionality of the Dual Citizenship Law.
LDPM Chairman MP Vladimir Filat told a news conference in Infotag today that according to the recent judgment by the European Court of Human Rights, the said Law, which prohibits persons with dual citizenship to hold sensitive public posts in Moldova, goes contrary to the European legislation and European legal practice. He reckons the Moldovan Constitutional Court must take this ECHR decision into account.
Filat believes the examination of the constitutionality of the disputable Law “will become an important test of our Constitutional Court, and we hope it will be impartial and objective, and will decide in favor of citizens of the country. The Dual Citizenship Law, in its present shape, is but an attempt to segregate the Moldovan society on the ethnicity principle. We hope that by addressing the Constitutional Court we will make our Government follow the ECHR recommendations to cancel the restrictions concerned”.
Some time ago, the European Court of Human Rights accepted the complaints sent by Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca (Deputy Chairman of the Liberal Party) and from lawyer Alexandru Tanase (LDPM Deputy Chairman), who feel apprehensions that their being citizens of Romania, too, will be an obstacle to becoming parliamentarians in 2009. So now the Moldovan authorities have 3 months at their disposal to either comply with the ECHR judgment or challenge it with the ECHR Supreme Chamber.
