The people are tired of listening to promises in the election campaign and want to be told exactly how the problems they face will be solved. “It is very easy to make promises, but it is very hard to deliver them. We know the most serious problems of the people and started from several key points. None of the election runners had a clear program with which they could reach each settlement, even abroad, buy we had,” Grigore Novac, a member of the electoral staff of Socialist candidate for President Igor Dodon, stated in the public debate “Electoral technologies and electoral technologists: lessons learned and lessons to be learned from the campaign prior to presidential elections”, organized by IPN News Agency in concert with Radio Moldova.
The MP said the Party of Socialists’ staff didn’t include foreign citizens employed to work out the electoral strategy because nobody knows better Moldovans’ mentality than the Moldovans. Their electoral staff did what the staff of their opponent didn’t do and established direct contact with the people, while Igor Dodon travelled to each district and talked to the people there.
“We spoke to everyone and didn’t divide the people into ours and yours. The people followed with interest the political developments. They formulated their own conclusions. It counted who was more persuasive. A large part of the electors voted according to their sympathy for the candidate or his/her program, while others voted according to their geopolitical views,” said the Socialist MP.
Grigore Novac noted that the electoral staff of the PSRM followed attentively every word of the opponent’s electoral staff, which chose a wrong tactic to deny what was evident. “We provided clear arguments for each lie invoked by the challenger. Initially, we chose to explain our program, but, willingly or not, we were attracted into this game. What came from the opponent’s staff had the boomerang effect. We succeeded as our message reached the people,” he stated.
The MP also said that the PSRM earlier suggested increasing the number of polling places overseas, but their proposal wasn’t supported. “We cannot speak about one thing and ignore another one. If we refer to the right to vote of the diaspora, we must also speak about the right to vote of the Moldovans from Transnistria and those from Russia. We must do everything possible to motivate the people to vote in elections, including those from the Transnistrian region and those from the diaspora. Everyone should be treated equally,” concluded Grigore Novac.
The public debate “Electoral technologies and electoral technologists: lessons learned and lessons to be learned from the campaign prior to presidential elections” is the 66th of the series of debates “Developing political culture by public debates” that are held by IPN in partnership with Radio Moldova and with support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation of Germany.
