The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has appointed a commission for the liquidation of the “Sor” political party, declared unconstitutional in mid-June 2023, which will take the necessary steps to remove the political party from the State Register of Legal Entities. An order to this effect was published on Tuesday 29 August in the Official Monitor of Moldova.

The Commission will be composed of seven people and will be composed as follows: Ion Popa, Vice-President of the Council of the Union of Authorised Administrators of Moldova, Liliana Voiticovschi, Head of the Financial-Economic Directorate, Central Electoral Commission, Ruslan Nastas, Deputy Head of the Legal Directorate, Central Electoral Commission, Dima Pavel, Deputy Head of the General Directorate of Legal Expertise, State Tax Service, Tatiana Ianciu, Principal Officer of the Legal Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Angela Popil, lawyer, Olga Burea, lawyer.

The following members of the Liquidation Commission have been appointed as liquidators of the Political Party “Shor”, declared unconstitutional: Ion Popa and Olga Burea. According to the document, the liquidators will be paid 16,000 lei per month.

On 19 June 2023, the CC declared unconstitutional the “Shor” political party. According to the High Court, the Political Party “Shor” is considered dissolved, and no act of the bodies of this party, adopted after the ruling, has legal value. The Ministry of Justice will appoint a commission for the liquidation of the political party, which will take all necessary measures to liquidate and remove this party from the State Register of Legal Entities.

After the High Court’s decision, the head of state said in a Facebook post that “state institutions are going to analyse the considerations of the CC decision and take the next steps in order to respect and effectively implement this decision”.

“From this moment on, political parties will probably not be able to carry out political activity in Moldova in any way, with any violation of the law,” stressed lawyer Eduard Digore, representing the government in the process. And former fugitive MP Ilan Shor, leader of the party of the same name, sentenced by the Chisinau Court of Appeal to 15 years in prison, threatened that “none of the perpetrators of this illegality will escape”.

On May 22, 2023, the Parliament approved in plenary session a package of decisions to implement the CC decision declaring the political party “Shor” unconstitutional. Thus, as of that day, the faction of the Political Party “Shor” ceased to exist by right, and the representatives of the party were excluded from the composition of the Permanent Bureau of the Legislature and from the delegations of the Moldovan Parliament to international parliamentary organisations and bilateral parliamentary organisations.