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Public Statements

Claire BAZY MALAURIE (President since December 2021)

2024

VENEZUELA - Presidential elections - Statement by the Bureau of the Venice Commission - 07/08/2024

2023

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Constitutional Court – Statement by the Venice Commission - 16/06/2023
ISRAEL - Justice reform should not jeopardise meaningful judicial review by independent courts - Statement by President Bazy Malaurie - 14/02/2023

2022

Gianni BUQUICCHIO (President from December 2009 to December 2021)

2021

UKRAINE - Urgent need to set up the Ethics Council - 29/09/2021
TUNISIA - The state of emergency - 26/08/2021
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA - Constitutional crisis - 23/04/2021

2020

POLAND - risk of paralysis of the Ombudsman institution-12/10/2020
BELARUS - International electoral standards must be respected - 12/08/2020
UKRAINE - Welcoming the judgment of the Constitutional Court - 12/03/2020
ARMENIA - Call for restraint, mutual respect and constructive institutional cooperation - 03/02/2020

2019

REPUBLIC of MOLDOVA - Independence and integrity of the judiciary - 27/11/2019
ARMENIA - Call for restraint, mutual respect and cooperation - 29/10/2019
GEORGIA - Appointment of Supreme Court judges - 11/03/2019

2018

TUNISIA - The Constitutional Court must be established without delay - 14/11/2018
ARMENIA - Holding of early elections - 19/10/2018
UKRAINE - Adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the Law on the High Anti-corruption Court - 07/06/2018

2017

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA - Criticism of the Constitutional Court by the President of the Republic - 13/10/2017
GEORGIA - Revision of the Constitution - 01/09/2017
POLAND - Judicial system - 18/07/2017
POLAND – Constitutional Tribunal - 16/01/2017

2016

BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA – Referendum in Republika Srpska - 23/09/2016
International Democracy Day - 15/09/2016
KYRGYZSTAN – Draft constitutional amendments - 05/08/2016
Türkiye - Rule of Law - 18/07/2016
World Conference on Constitutional Justice -100 members - 17/06/2016
Undue interference in the work of Constitutional Courts in member States - 16/03/2016

2015

ARMENIA - Constitutional amendments adopted - 05/10/2015
GEORGIA - Undue pressure on the Constitutional Court - 22/09/2015
UKRAINE - Draft amendments to the Constitution regarding decentralisation - 29/06/2015
KYRGYZSTAN – Dismissal of a Judge of the Constitutional Chamber - 25/06/2015
TÜRKIYE - Interference with Judicial Independence - 20/06/2015

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