The Constitution is the fundamental act of the state that contains the most important regulations of the political system, guarantees political pluralism and protects the human rights and freedoms, the president of the Constitutional Court (CC) Alexandru Tanase said on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution by Moldova’s Parliament on July 29, 1994.
Alexandru Tanase said that after decades of authoritarian regime and brutal social experiences, the people of the Republic of Moldova chose the national independence, parliamentary democracy and human rights. To achieve this goal, one of the first steps that the country took after declaring its independence was to adopt a democratic Constitution that guarantees the human rights and basic freedoms and that protects the people from abuses on the part of the state.
The president of the CC notes that the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova places the power of the rulers in the people’s hands. “This paradigm will remain an illusion as long as we will not have free people. Consequently, an obligation of the state is to contribute to forming free people. Freedom, no matter how solemnly it is proclaimed, will remain an illusion if there are no efficient mechanisms for protecting it. The Constitution of Moldova offers the whole set of such instruments. Consequently, the state agents are obliged to make effort for these mechanisms to work,” stated Alexandru Tanase.
According to him, what made the Moldovan citizens proclaim the territory of the former Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic an independent state in 1991 was the wish of national emancipation, the wish to be free and decide by oneself the fate, to have a decent life and to be safe. All these values are guaranteed by the Constitution. Consequently, the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova is the liaison that must unite the human groups into one state.
