339
23.04.2010
Press release issued by the Registrar
FORTHCOMING GRAND CHAMBER JUDGMENT
27 April 2010
The European Court of Human Rights will deliver its Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Tănase v. Moldova (no. 7/08) in a public hearing on Tuesday 27 April 2010 at 9.30 a.m. - local time - in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg.
The press releases and the texts of the judgments will be available after the hearing on the Court’s Internet site (http://www.echr.coe.int).
The applicant, Alexandru Tănase, is a Moldovan and Romanian national, born in 1971, and lives in Chişinău. He is a member of the Moldovan Liberal Democratic Party and currently holds the office of Minister of Justice in the coalition government. In the legislative elections in April 2009 and July 2009 he was elected as a member of Parliament (MP).
The case concerned the introduction in 2008 of a prohibition on Moldovan nationals holding other nationalities and who had not started a procedure to renounce those nationalities taking their seats as members of Parliament following their election (Law no. 273).
The applicant complained that Law no. 273 interfered with his right to stand as a candidate in free elections and to take his seat in Parliament if elected, thus ensuring the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of legislature. He relied on Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 (right to free elections). He also complained under Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) taken together with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 that he had been subjected to discrimination.
339
23.04.2010
Press release issued by the Registrar
FORTHCOMING GRAND CHAMBER JUDGMENT
27 April 2010
The European Court of Human Rights will deliver its Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Tănase v. Moldova (no. 7/08) in a public hearing on Tuesday 27 April 2010 at 9.30 a.m. - local time - in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg.
The press releases and the texts of the judgments will be available after the hearing on the Court’s Internet site (http://www.echr.coe.int).
The applicant, Alexandru Tănase, is a Moldovan and Romanian national, born in 1971, and lives in Chişinău. He is a member of the Moldovan Liberal Democratic Party and currently holds the office of Minister of Justice in the coalition government. In the legislative elections in April 2009 and July 2009 he was elected as a member of Parliament (MP).
The case concerned the introduction in 2008 of a prohibition on Moldovan nationals holding other nationalities and who had not started a procedure to renounce those nationalities taking their seats as members of Parliament following their election (Law no. 273).
The applicant complained that Law no. 273 interfered with his right to stand as a candidate in free elections and to take his seat in Parliament if elected, thus ensuring the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of legislature. He relied on Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 (right to free elections). He also complained under Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) taken together with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 that he had been subjected to discrimination.
In a judgment of 18 November 2008, the Court unanimously held that there had been a violation of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1. On 6 April 2009 the case was referred to the Grand Chamber under Article 43 of the Convention at the Government’s request. On 16 September 2009 a hearing was held in public in the Human Rights Building in Strasbourg.
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