The parties and other sociopolitical organizations that will set up electoral blocks for the June 14 local elections will not have the right to designate candidates individually. After the election block is registered, the parties that will create it will not have the right to take part in the elections separately. The regulations concerning the registration of electoral blocs for the local general elections were approved by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on April 10.

CEC secretary Andrei Volentir has told IPN that political polygamy will not be allowed. If two or more parties in a settlement decide to form an electoral bloc, this bloc must have the same composition in all the constituencies. “The political parties that will decide to go together will have to keep this line throughout the electoral period and everywhere in the country, in the 896 mayor’s offices of the first level, the two mayor’s offices of the second level and the 32 district electoral authorities of the second level,” he stated.

If the constituent parties withdraw from the bloc by submitting a relevant application to the CEC and the bloc remains with only one component, the registration of the given bloc is annulled. For their part, the district electoral councils annul by a decision the registration of the candidates on behalf of the bloc whose registration was annulled.

For the candidates to be registered, the electoral bloc will present the copy of the Central Election Commission’s decision concerning the registration of the bloc, together with the documents stimulated in the Election Code, to the district electoral councils.