Council of Europe gives the go-ahead to referendum in Moldova
The Council of Europe has given the green light to holding a referendum on amending the Moldovan Constitution, Anna Gutu, Head of Moldova's permanent delegation to the PACE, has stated to the press in parliament building today.
She said the message has come from the Monitoring Committee, "which gave the green light to any political decision that will be taken by the Alliance for European Integration, including a decision on referendum holding".
In her words, the March 2010 recommendations by the Venice Commission - concerning the parliamentary dissolution and holding early elections - were given on the basis of the cutdown translation of the Constitution text into English and French, which the Venice Commission members had been provided with.
"I have no idea who bobtailed the translations. I can't understand why this fact was not established last month, on April 5-6, when PACE rapporteur on Moldova and a Venice Commission member Josette Durrieu was in Chisinau. She then had a meeting with the members of the constitutional reform commission and stated that the translations differed from the Romanian-language original of the Constitution. The error pertained primarily to Article 2 in the Constitution concerning the sovereignty of the people", Gutu said.
She explained that translations of national laws are usually given to European officials by embassies of the countries concerned. Gutu offered a supposition that the Moldovan embassy in Brussels is responsible for issuing the cutdown translations of the Constitution text.
"The Moldovan state is responsible for this. I mean the previous and the current governments of Moldova, because they haven't taken care about careful translation of the Constitution into European languages", stressed Gutu.
Moldova's Acting President, Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu presumes the erroneous Constitution text is precisely the reason why Moldova would not till now reach a consensus with the Venice Commission on the referendum question. He believes a referendum is the only viable solution for overcoming the crisis.
Ghimpu stressed he would dissolve the Parliament "within a reasonable timeframe", which frame, as he presumes, presupposes a possibility to simultaneously hold a referendum and an early parliamentary election".
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