Draft law: Members of executive bodies of parties declared unconstitutional not to be able to run for election for three years

Chisinau, July 11. /MOLDPRES/- Members of the executive bodies of the parties declared unconstitutional will not be able to run for election for three years from the date of the Constitutional Court (CC) ruling. A draft law in this regard has been registered in Parliament.

The head of the legal commission on rules and immunities, Olesea Stamate, said that the draft law comes to implement a prevention mechanism, resulting from the declaration of a political party as unconstitutional.

"I proposed to supplement the Electoral Code with the following restriction on the right to run for elections: 

the persons who at the moment were members of the executive body of the political party declared unconstitutional, the people who held elective positions or who were on the lists of substitute candidates of the political party declared unconstitutional cannot be elected for a 3 year-period of CC ruling on declaration of unconstitutionality of a political party", Olesea Stamate said.

"I considered it opportune and justified for the Parliament to legislate a restriction on the right to be elected, namely in the case of people who held elective positions or who were on the lists of substitute candidates from the political party declared unconstitutional. Otherwise, the practical effects of the CC Decision would have been limited to those who currently hold the mandate by becoming independent. They could run in the next elections on the list of another party, or as independent candidates, which discredits the idea of declaring a party as unconstitutional, as a prevention mechanism", said Stamate.

In mid-June, CC declared the Shor Party as unconstitutional. The examination process was initiated under a notification submitted to the CC by the Government, which requested the verification of the constitutionality of the Shor Party. The examination sessions began on May 10. Evidence was presented that the Shor Party would have bribed voters and participants in the protests, as well as organized their transportation. The party representatives rejected the claims and qualified them as "political".