The Venice Commission found that the dissolution of the Parliament in the Republic of Moldova did not meet the required conditions. In its opinion issued on 24 June 2019, the Venice Commission considered that the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova did not respect its own procedures or the principle of equality of the parties when dealing with the recent country’s political crisis. The Commission also recalled that an essential role of the Constitutional Court is to maintain equal distance from all branches of power and to act as an impartial arbiter in case of collision between them, whilst respecting the solutions reached by democratically legitimate institutions.