Moldovan top court rules on anti-propaganda law be promulgated by speaker or premier
12:42 | 05.01.2018 Category: Political
Chisinau, 5 January /MOLDPRES/- The Constitutional Court of Moldova today decided that the refusal of President Igor Dodon to promulgate the law amending the Audiovisual Code is a reason to establish interim office.
According to the magistrates’ decision, the president does not have the right to veto the law, this right being exclusively to parliament. For this reason, the refusal to repeatedly promulgate a law is a ground for establishing the interim office.
Thus, the court ruled that the anti-propaganda law would be promulgated in order for holding the interim office of speaker or premier.
The president will be suspended from office for the third consecutive time after refusing to appoint ministers and promulgate the anti-propaganda law.
On 22 December 2017, the parliament reconfirmed its vote for the law amending the Audiovisual Code. The law aims at securing the information space of Moldova by limiting the broadcasting in the country of informational-analytical, political, military programs from states that have not ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television.
(Reporter A. Zara, editor L. Alcază)
