Coalition 2009: Voting process started with violations
The Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections – Coalition 2009 has said that the early parliamentary elections began with irregularities, Info-Prim Neo reports.
The observers of Coalition 2009 identified inaccurate registers of voters. The rolls of a polling station in Leova town included unknown persons registered in the dwelling of a voter. Similar irregularities were discovered at two polling places in Chisinau.
A person was not allowed to vote at a polling station in Chisinau as the data from the identity card were written incorrectly in the electoral rolls.
The members of the electoral office of the polling place No.62 located in the municipality of Chisinau banned the observers from moving inside the station, in breach of the Electoral Code and the international standards on election monitoring, Coalition 2009 says in a communiqué.
The observers also said that the access to the polling station No. 5 in Corjova village in the Transnistrian region was again blocked, as in the April 5 legislative elections.
According to the observers of Coalition 2009, the turnout of voters in Moldova is about 10%. The turnout at the polling places set up abroad is also high. 256 persons voted at the polling station in Moscow by 10.00. This is 22.15% of the number of persons that voted in the April 5 elections. 318 persons (about 7.5%) cast their votes at Moldova’s Embassy and consular section in Bucharest by 09.00. 158 persons (4.7%) voted in Bologna, and 110 persons (7%) – in Rome.
Coalition 2009 said that the list of irregularities is not exhaustive. It will issue a new communiqué at about 15:00.