The only way for you to raise an issue you are concerned about with the Constitutional Court is though persons who are entitled to file complaints to the Constitutional Court.

Therefore, the most usual and easiest way for you to do so is through a judge in the following situation.

First, your case (for example, a civil action or a criminal case against you) must be heard in court.

Secondly, you or your lawyer have determined that a normative act or a legal provision, for which there is doubt about its constitutionality, applies to decide the case.

Thirdly, you or your lawyer should ask the judge hearing the case to refer a complaint to the Constitutional Court to review the constitutionality of the normative act or a legal provision. The judge is obliged to refer this request to the Constitutional Court and to suspend the case until the Constitutional Court's decision is made. After that, the judge will continue examining the case in the light of the decision of the Constitutional Court.

note Persons who are entitled to file complaints to the Constitutional Court are: President of the Republic of Moldova, Government, Minister of Justice, judges/judge panels of the Supreme Court of Justice, courts of appeal and courts of law, Superior Council of Magistracy, Prosecutor General, Member of Parliament, parliamentary faction, Ombudsman, Ombudsman for the Rights of the Child, councils of the administrative-territorial units of the first or second level and People's Assembly of Gagauzia (Gagauz-Yeri). 

As you see, there are some conditions which have to be taken into account before submitting a complaint:

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Last updated 23/11/2023