Only President can grant or deny citizenship, Constitutional Court holds
The President is the only authority in Moldova that can provide final solutions for each stage of obtaining citizenship. Any other authority can have only technical and not decisional competences, Info-Prim Neo learned from a press release of the Constitutional Court.
The Court ruled so after a notification of the Supreme Justice Court (CSJ). CSJ asked the CC to verify the constitutionality of an article of the Law on citizenship in the context of a lawsuit initiated by a foreign citizen.
The individual in question sent a request for citizenship to the President, but his request was rejected by “Registru” state enterprise and by the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (MTIC), even though the citizenship request didn’t even reach the President’s Office.
According to legal provisions, if all the conditions stipulated by law are met, MTIC prepares a grounded advice notice and sends it, alongside the notice of the Ministry of the Interior and the applicant’s request, to the President, who solves the case.
According to the Constitutional Court, the differences that occur in the litigation procedure of granting citizenship are caused by gaps and inaccuracies in the normative acts in this field, adopted by the Parliament and Government.
