The Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) Friday submitted a challenge to the Central Election Commission (CEC), asking penalizing and counteracting the actions of the Center for Sociological Investigations and Marketing SBS-AXA. The AMN demands forcing the center to deny the poll presented on Thursday, November 4, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We think that our request is justified and in accordance with the law,” the party's first vice president Victor Osipov said in a news conference. Under Article 64 of the Election Code, any opinion poll on voters' political preferences can be carried out during the election campaign only if the Central Election Commission is informed about it beforehand. The Commission must also be informed who commissioned the poll. The Parliament adopted related amendments to the legislation in order to prevent the falsification of surveys or their use for manipulating the public opinion. “SBS-AXA did not inform the CEC about its intention to conduct the poll,” said Victor Osipov, adding to all appearances the poll was commissioned by a phantom company. According to Osipov, the poll confirms that such instruments in Moldova continue to be used to manipulate the public opinion. “This time, it was used to discourage our voters and encourage those who support the Communists because the poll gives the PCRM an unreal percentage for their current position in Moldova,” Osipov said. He also said that the center's head Ion Jigau is a member of the executive body of a political party, but he probably does not serve this party, but all those who commission such polls and use them as instruments of manipulation in the election campaign. Victor Osipov said the AMN in the previous campaigns had discussions with sociologists, including Jigau, trying to understand why the percentage given to the party in surveys is four times lower than that obtained in elections. “The technology we use in the campaign was tested during the previous campaigns and is based on field work with the people as the local organizations of the AMN are powerful. 110,000 persons pledged to support the AMN by November 1, which is about 7%,” Osipov said. He stated that the psychological condition of the PCRM's electoral staff is deplorable, while some of its members are trying to infiltrate into the ruling parties and 'make friends' there. Osipov said he received a memory card containing different documents of the PCRM, including a letter written by Communist MP Grigore Petrenko, who asks the rector of the Free International University Andrei Galben to exempt a number of members of the PCRM from paying tuition fees. Also, those documents show that the PCRM's local organization in Stefan Voda does not have a head office and that in Causeni the Communists' organization rents the computer from Moldova's Post Office. The memory card was brought to the AMN's head office and was addressed to Victor Osipov.