Campaigning the day before the election day could be banned, as it was before the introduction of the mixed electoral system. “What happened at the elections of February 24, the allowing of campaigning, turned out to be legalization of electoral bribe,” Sergiu Litvinenko, who heads the Parliament’s commission on appointments and immunities, stated in public hearings centering on the annulment of the mixed electoral system and the return to the party-list proportional representation system, IPN reports.

Promo-LEX expert Igor Bucătaru noted the election monitoring practice shows the norm says one thing, but the reality is different. The state cannot control campaigning and cannot make sure that this is absent before the elections. The Internet is maximally used on these days and the posters cannot be removed during such a short period of time.

According to MP of the ACUM Bloc Lilian Carp, at the previous elections campaigning was allowed at 100 meters from the polling place, but this norm was not respected. “They campaigned right near the polling place,” he said, noting the regulation of campaigning on the election day on social networking sites is the most serious problem.

Expert of “WatchDog” community Valeriu Pașa suggested taking measures to prevent intentional campaigning in favor of a candidate, without this knowing about this, on the election day and one day before the elections.

Jurist Mihai Corj stated the ban on campaigning should not refer to information that had been already placed on the Internet. The participants in the campaign should have a contract with advertising agencies so that electoral advertisements are removed by Friday, midnight, when the elections are held on a Sunday. The ‘electoral silence’ will also be guaranteed this way.

Vasile Costiuc, chairman of the Party “Democracy at Home”, noted the silence day should be restored  so as to prevent a repeat of such an aggressive election campaign as the last one.