The Communists Party demands annulling the Central Election Commission’s decision of August 3 whereby the Moldovan Government’s application concerning the opening of polling places abroad for the September 5 constitutional referendum was modified. A challenge to this effect was submitted by the PCRM’s jurist Sergiu Sarbu to the Chisinau Court of Appeals this morning, Info-Prim Neo reports. Under the CEC decision, no polling places will be opened in Surgut and Sochi. Instead, a polling place will be set up in Kaliningrad. The polling station that was to be opened in Spain’s Valencia was transferred to Santander, and only one of the two polling places that were to be set up in Ireland’s Dublin will be kept, at Teacher’s Club 36 Parnell Square, West Dublin 1. Sergiu Sarbu told Info-Prim Neo that the Commission’s decision infringed the legal term of opening polling places abroad as such a decision could be adopted by July 31. He also said that the preliminary registration of voters abroad is not performed and there is no proof that the authorities of the states where the polling stations will be opened gave their consent. “Three imperative norms of the Election Code were violated. Therefore, we demand that the decision be abrogated,” Sergiu Sarbu said. The Government earlier announced that 80 poling places will be set up abroad for the September 5 constitutional referendum.