Moldova to allow billionaire's pro-Kremlin party to field candidates in elections

Moldova’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that candidates from a pro-Russian political party headed by a fugitive billionaire can stand in the country’s presidential election later this year.

The Șor Party, named after Ilan Shor, a Moldovan businessman living in exile in Israel, was dissolved in June after a court found it had paid citizens to cause disorder and unrest. In October the Moldovan parliament amended the electoral code to bar individuals associated with parties deemed illegal or unconstitutional from running for office for three years.

On Tuesday, however, Moldova’s Constitutional Court ruled that the October changes to the electoral code were themselves unconstitutional, arguing the bill had been rushed through two sittings and that deputies hadn’t had enough time to draw up amendments.

Shor welcomed the verdict.



https://www.politico.eu/article/moldova-allow-billionaire-ilan-shor-sor-pro-kremlin-party-sor-field-candidate-election/