The leader of the Party “Action and Solidarity” (PAS) Maia Sandu, who ran in this year’s presidential elections, said they will file a challenge to the Constitutional Court (CC) concerning the unconstitutionality of the presidential decree to name Eduard Harunjen as prosecutor general. “We will submit the challenge through the agency of MP Grigore Cobzac, who supports our initiative,” the politician wrote on her Facebook account, quoted by IPN.

According to Maia Sandu, the Party “Action and Solidarity” considers the decision to appoint Eduard Harunjen as prosecutor general is against the people because the people’s right to benefit from a real justice sector reform and from concrete actions that would penalize the thieves and the corrupt ones is infringed, and is also illegal because it endorses an illegal contest staged by an illegal council. “The fact that Harunjen was admitted to the contest is even more serious as he was a member of the Superior Council of Prosecutors from his position of acting prosecutor general and the eligibility conditions were thus violated,” says the message.

The PAS leader also says that the people deserve a prosecutor who will work in their interests and will stop all the fraudulent enrichment schemes employed by those who are in power, not one who lacks integrity and will close the eyes to the anarchy in justice.

Eduard Harunjen was chosen winner of a contest to fill the post of prosecutor general that involved five candidates on December 7. The next day, President Nicolae Timofti signed the decree to appoint this to the post.