AKIPRESS.COM - Moscow is worried over the ruling of Moldova’s Constitutional Court closing out any political course other than that towards European integration as “a priori non-constitutional,” Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, reports ITAR-TASS.

In conditions when no national referendums have been organized in Moldova to find out people’s foreign policy preferences, such approach obviously runs counter to common European values and basic principles of democracy - the freedom of thought and the freedom of speech, the ministry noted in a comment posted on its official website. “The silence of European institutions, so zealously advocating human rights in some cases, is only perplexing,” the ministry said.

Now that Moldova is living through a canvassing campaign ahead of parliamentary elections due on November 30, “it is especially important to steer a middle course in Moldovan society, to ensure a fair and transparent election process, the results of which are to demonstrate the choice of Moldovan citizens, including their foreign policy preferences for the republic’s further development,” the ministry said.

“Subsequent attempts of the /Constitutional/ Court’s top officials to explain the reason underlying this verdict charged with confrontational potential for the entire election campaign look untenable,” the document said.

“What else this ruling of the supreme court instance can be if not an actual outlawing of political associations standing for other development paths for the country than the goals and tasks set by parties of the current ruling coalition,” the ministry added.