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Moldovan acting president says 2000 Constitutional amendment in breach of legislation

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The Moldovan parliament seriously violated the legislation in 2000 when it amended Article 78 of Moldova's constitution on the mechanism of presidential election. Acting President and Parliament Speaker Mihai Ghimpu has made this statement at a meeting with students of the department of International Relations, Political and Administrative Sciences of the Moldovan State University (USM).

Ghimpu said that he discovered that "those who initiated the constitution's amendment asked for a note of the Constitutional Court (CC) concerning the way of the presidential election not with three fifths of the MPs' votes, but with 50+1. We are to clarify when this appeared," Ghimpu said.

Asked who went for this infringement, the parliament speaker said that, according to the stenogram, the proposal came from the Party of Communists (PCRM). "It is sure that they changed it. And this means that the amendment was made without the CC's approval and this is a problem," Ghimpu added.

Contacted by MOLDPRES, PCRM jurist Sergiu Sirbu said that, given that in 2000, when Article 78 of the constitution was changed, the PCRM had only 40 mandates, other parties participated in the voting too. "I did not study the draft from 2000, but the Constitutional Court just checks the limits of the revision of one or another article, and gives no opinion on the way of its adoption," Sirbu said.

Sirbu specified that, "if an amendment is in a normal version at the first stage, and afterwards the parliament adopts another version, under which the limits of the constitution's provision are overstepped, then this is a glaring violation of the fundamental law."

"These are just purely political statements, I can also read to students a lecture on this subject two times," Sirbu added.

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