The Constitutional Court (CC) will state its opinion on the incompatibility of different posts with the seat of local elected official on July 16. The challenge examined by the constitutional judges today, July 9, was submitted by unaffiliated MP Mihai Godea, who said that the changes made by the legislative body last year generated multiple situations of conflict, misinterpretation and defective application of the law towards some of the local elected authorities, IPN reports.

Last July, Parliament decided that the seat of local elected official is incompatible with the post of employee of subdivisions of the local public administration (the staff of the raion head, mayor’s offices, district head’s offices of Chisinau municipality, divisions, sections and other subdivisions), including of the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia and Gagauzia’s Executive Committee, as well as with the post of head and deputy head of public institutions and services, municipal enterprises that are managed by the local public authorities.

According to Mihai Godea, by the made amendments, a considerable number of local elected officials are forced to renounce the seats won in the local general elections of June 2011 because they hold different jobs in institutions that are subordinate or affiliated to the local public authorities.