The Communist Reformist Party (PCR) is waiting for the official results of the November 30 parliamentary elections to be announced so as to dispute them in court ad to demand a vote recount. In a news conference at IPN, the party’s leader Ruslan Popa said the PCR obtained an electoral score of at least 7%, but many of the votes given to them were ‘stolen’ when they were counted.

According to Ruslan Popa, the party’s score in the elections is the expression of the confidence that they managed to gain during the several months of the constitution of the PCR. He contradicted those who say that the high percentage gained by the Communist Reformists (4.92% according to the preliminary results) is due to the fact that they had an emblem similar to that of the Party of Communists and thus managed to mislead a part of the supporters of the PCRM.

The leader of the PCR noted that several thousand ballots were declared invalid because they contained two stamps ‘voted’ – next to the Communist Reformist Party and next to the Party of Communists. These voters could have included people who didn’t know who to vote for, but those who voted for the PCR did it consciously.

Ruslan Popa also said that observers from different settlements noticed that ballots with votes for the Communist Reformists were added to the ballots with votes for other parties, intentionally or by mistake. Such mistakes or ‘thefts’ could have taken place in all the polling places of the country. In the large settlements, with many voters, it was easier to rig the elections.

The Communist Reformist Party insists that both civil society and the embassies working in Moldova should become more actively involved and should demand that the authorities honestly count the votes so as none of them is stolen.

Ruslan Popa underlined that only the presence of the Communist Reformists in Parliament will ensure stability in the country and will hinder those who are in power from continuing to steal the public property.