The expert in public politics Ştefan Gligor was asked in an interview for europalibera.org if the idea that fewer deputies could be validated, not 101, but 80 is just speculation, and then it would be easier to create a parliamentary majority to decide who to govern the Republic of Moldova. In the context, Stefan Gligor mentioned that this is not a speculation, this is a legal provision of the Electoral Code.

“That is Art. 101, par. 1 and 2, which state that the elections are considered to have taken place, if 2/3 of the mandates are validated on proportional lists and 2/3 of the uninominal constituencies, the  results of elections in 2/3 of the uninominal constituencies. We warned about the existence of this risk in July 2018 that elections can be invalidated without canceling the national general outcome in up to 17 uninominal constituencies.That is why, if, let’s say, they will have problems in obtaining a certain number of mandates, it could invalidate the results in several uninominal constituencies and hold repeated elections there, and the Constitutional Court could, for example, validate 50 deputies on proportional lists and we have 51 and we remove 17 and get the number of mandates that will be validated, for example, on uninominal ones. There may be 5, and 7 as long as they need. For this reason, we have warned and talked that the Constitutional Court is crucial and recent appointments to the Constitutional Court explain why the Democratic Party has gone to defy the public opinion and foreign partners by appointing people so biased and linked to the Democratic Party to the Constitutional Court, to make these arrangements if they have a problem in securing the parliamentary majority”, Gligor said.

According to him, a such government would not be legitimate and would not be representative, and such government should not take place.

Andriana Cheptine

Translator: Mihaela Grosu