DETERMINATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of July 18, 2008

According to the address about interpretation of the item and) h. (1) Art. 141 of the Constitution

Constitutional court in structure:

To Dumitr PULBERE - the chairman, the judge-speaker

Alina YANUCHENKO is judge

Elena SAFALERU is judge

Valeria SHTERBETS is judge

with the assistance of Victoria Botnaryuk-Trelya, the secretary of meeting, having considered the address based on Art. 44 of the Code of the constitutional jurisdiction is preliminary, established:

On June 24, 2008 the deputy of Parliament Vladimir Filat appealed to the Constitutional court with request about interpretation of the item and) h. (1) Art. 141 of the Constitution.

According to the item and) h. (1) Art. 141 of the Constitution the initiative of review of the Constitution can proceed from at least than 200 000 citizens of the Republic of Moldova having the right to choose. Citizens from whom the initiative of review of the Constitution proceeds shall represent at least a half of administrative and territorial units of the second level, in each of which at least 20 000 signatures in support of this initiative shall be collected.

The author of the address considers that these provisions contain semantic discrepancy which does them inapplicable, violating, thus, constitutional right of citizens to initiate review of the Constitution. In his opinion, in the conditions of the new administrative-territorial device the constitutional regulations on collection in support of initiative of review of the Constitution at least 20 000 signatures in each of at least a half of administrative and territorial units of the second level cannot be realized. So, after the administrative-territorial reform of 2003 performed based on the Law N 764-XV of December 27, 2001 in some administrative and territorial units of the second level the number of citizens with voting power does not reach 20 000.

Having considered the address, the Constitutional court recognized that it cannot be accepted to consideration on the merits on the following bases.

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