Moldovan top court rules on procedure for submitting candidate to post of prime minister

Chisinau, 15 May /MOLDPRES/- The Constitutional Court today examined a complaint submitted in late April by President Igor Dodon on the right of the president to file candidate for prime minister position if parliament does not have leadership. Magistrates have decided that he cannot submit a candidacy to the post of prime minister without a functioning parliament.

The court said that Moldovan president cannot submit a candidate for the premier post in the absence of parliamentary governing bodies. Magistrates noted that the impossibility of meeting the parliament due to the lack of the body that convenes it implies the President's impossibility to appoint a candidate for the post of prime minister.

Earlier, the president announced he would ask the court to give a clear interpretation of whether the head of state has the right to submit a candidate to the post of premier, if the parliament does not have a leadership and is unable to adopt any laws in the absence of a parliamentary majority.