Moldovan Our Party leader begins electoral campaign

Chisinau, 30 September /MOLDPRES/ - The candidate for the Moldovan president office on behalf of Our Party (PN), Dumitru Ciubasenco, today started the electoral campaign for the presidential polls due on 30 October.         

At the launch event, Dumitru Ciubasenco said that, following his swearing in office, he would sign a decree on parliament’s dissolution, which will trigger snap elections. “This decree is absolutely legitimate. I commit to sign it and enforce it immediately after my election to the office of president. Our goal in this struggle is to gain victory,” Ciubasenco noted.  

At the same time, legal experts say that an attempt to dissolve the parliament, without the positive approval of Moldova’s Constitutional Court (CCM), will be declared unconstitutional.

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the former CCM president, Victor Puscas, has earlier said that, under Article 85 of the Constitution, the president has right to dissolve the parliament in case of impossibility to form the government or if the procedure of laws’ adoption has been blocked during three months. The parliament can also be dissolved if it gave no vote of confidence to the government in a 45-day period following the first request and only after the turning down of at least two requests of swearing in office,” Victor Puscas noted.  

The former president of the Constitutional Court also said that “Moldova’s president can dissolve the parliament only in the aforementioned situations; at the same time, in these cases, first of all, the head of state should have the CCM’s positive approval. The signing of a decree without a preliminary approval by CCM would represent an abuse of power and infringement of the Constitution; and any other attempts to dissolve the parliament or create parallel bodies of the kind of the front, council or constituent assembly, etc. will be declared unconstitutional,” Puscas added.    

Dumitru Ciubasenco is journalist by profession. During 14 years, he worked as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Moldavskie Vedomosti. Starting from 2009, Ciubasenco has been founder of the Panorama publication.    

The electoral campaign for the presidential polls started today. The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has registered eight candidates as contenders for the office of Moldovan president so far: Marian Lupu on behalf of PDM, Mihai Ghimpu – Liberal Party, Iurie Leanca – European People’s Party of Moldova, Andrei Nastase – Dignity and Truth Political Party, Ina Popenco – Ravnopravie (Equality of Rights), Dumitru Ciubasenco – Our Party, Maia Sandu – Action and Solidarity Party and Igor Dodon – Party of Socialists. In case of another eight candidates, CEC is to make public its opinion till 6 October.