Commission for constitutional reform set up in Moldova

Chisinau, 30 July /MOLDPRES/ - President Igor Dodon on 29 July, the Constitution Day, signed a decree on the setting up of the commission for constitutional reform.  

In a posting on social networks, the head of state informs that the decision to create such a commission was taken at a meeting with the former presidents of the Constitutional Court (CCM), Victor Puscas and Dumitru Pulbere. The ex-presidents of CCM found out that ‘’more difficulties have appeared in the jurisdictional constitution field,’’ Dodon noted.   

The Moldovan president enumerated, in this respect, the constitutional blockages in the Government-Parliament relations on the period 2014-2020, the political party switching, initiatives on cutting the number of MPs, national security problems. Another difficulty touched upon by the head of state deals with opportunities to omit from the Constitution the provisions which see possibility to liquidate the state through a referendum.     

Igor Dodon said that it was necessary to introduce provisions on the state’s  balanced foreign policy in the Constitution. At the same time, the powers and the status of the Constitutional Court and the Superior Council of Magistracy should be concretely stipulated.