In a judgment it delivered in 2012, the Moldovan Constitutional Court interpreting Article 68, para 2, of the Constitution held that “in line with free representation, the parliamentarian’s mandate is irrevocable: voters cannot end it prematurely and the practice of ‘blank resignations’ is prohibited. Voters cannot, therefore, express dissatisfaction with the way in which a candidate has fulfilled his or her mandate other than by refusing to vote for that candidate again when he or she seeks re-election.”