Moldova marks Constitution Day

Chisinau, 29 July /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova marks the 29th anniversary of the Constitution’s adoption today.  

The Republic of Moldova’s Constitution was adopted on 29 July 1994 and entered into force on 27 August of the same year. The supreme law envisages that Moldova is a sovereign, independent, unitary and indivisible state.   

The Constitution is made up of eight titles, each one divided into chapters and sections. The Constitution’s preamble contains the century-old aspirations of the people to live in a sovereign country, the strivings for meeting the interests of the citizens. The Constitution highlights also the aspiration to the creation of the rule of law state, considering the civic peace, democracy, human dignity, human rights and freedoms, free development of the human personality, justice and political pluralism as being supreme values; reaffirms the devotion of the MPs in their capacity of plenipotentiary representatives of Moldova’s people, to the generally human values, the wish to live in peace and good understanding with all nations of the world, according to the unanimously recognized principles and norms of the international law.     

The Constitution is the fundamental law of the state, which defines the attributes of the state, the principle of functioning and its principal goals. It contains the most important principles of the economic, political, social and legal life, as well as the values on which Moldova relies: the separation of the powers, the fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens, independence of justice, political pluralism, etc. The Constitution is the legal basis of the entire legislation; the entire institutional and normative ensemble is based on it.    

The fundamental law is a corps of principles and norms which opened the way for the assertion of the fundamental values of the rule of law state and of the market economy, a guarantee of the fundamental human rights, as well as of the work of the state’s basic institutions, providing the framework needed for the establishment of a governance system based on the inalienable rights of the mankind: life, freedom and looking for happiness.   

The Republic of Moldova’s Constitution is the document with the greatest authority of regulation in the public, political and social life of the country. Being a symbol of the people’s struggle for freedom, democracy and human rights, the Constitution reminds each citizen the holy duty to serve the Motherland faithfully, to defend at any cost the unity, sovereignty and independence of Moldova.     

The significance of the Republic of Moldova’s Constitution consists in its important functions: carries out a synthesis of the processes and events from the people’s history in the struggle for the society’s democratization; expresses the people’s goals and wishes; establishes the character and limits of the state power; is a concept on the relations in the society.