Those who want to run independently in the parliamentary elections are discriminated in relation to those who run on party lists, said activist Oleg Brega, who intends to run as an independent, IPN reports.
In the program “Pahomi” on Realitatea TV channel, Oleg Brega said it is hard to collect the 2,000 signatures needed for being registered as an election runner. “Besides the fact that the rules for collecting these signatures are strict, the signatures must be also confirmed by the local public administration where the signatories live. But the mayors and councilors are politically affiliated and can hamper an election opponent of the party of which they form part,” he stated.
According to the activist, the election threshold of 2% is also discriminatory for the independent candidates. ”No independent candidate managed yet to enter Parliament. 2% is too much for one person. Usually, the votes of those who run independently, but do not enter Parliament, are redistributed to parties. If this independent enters Parliament and something happens to him – he dies or renounces the seat – this seat is also allotted to a party, not to an independent,” stated Oleg Brega.
He also said that if he manages to become an election runner, his main election opponent will be the corrupt state machinery. “The Central Election Commission and the National Anticorruption Center will make everything possible to obstruct me and to disqualify me,” considers Brega. He also referred to the situation of Renato Usatyi, saying this businessman will go through the Moldovan politics like an ‘itch’, but the Ministry of Justice wasn’t anyway right when it refused to register his party on the pretext of false signatures. “If Usatyi is right and the signatures weren’t forged, I can imagine what will happen in my case,” stated Brega.
