"The conditions for the dissolution of parliament clearly did not exist in the Republic of Moldova on 7 or 8 June 2019", said the Council of Europe's Venice Commission in an opinion adopted on Friday 21 June (see EUROPE B12272A17).
According to the international organisation's constitutional law experts, the Moldovan "Constitutional Court did not respect its own procedures nor the principle of equality of the parties when dealing with the recent political crisis", whereas its role is...