The election runners started to give electoral presents to voters. Though the Election Code bans the election contenders from offering money and presents to voters and from distributing gratis goods, including humanitarian aid, several parties violated the law. The violations were highlighted in Report No. 2 “Monitoring of the November 30 parliamentary elections” compiled by the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections and Promo-LEX Association, IPN reports.
The Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) donated an interactive table with projector and computer to the Theoretical Lyceum of Zimbreni village of Ialoveni district. The handover event involved representatives of the party. On October 1, on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons, the Democratic Party (PDM) offered envelopes with 110 lei in each of them to all the elderly people of the village. A similar situation was witnessed in Ochiul-Alb, Drochia.
At least three parties – the PDM, PLDM and the Liberal Party (PL) – incurred costs related to sports activities. The PDM staged at least one sports competition in Hancesti, where there were given balls, schoolbags with the party’s symbols, medals and diplomas. A ball costs at least 350 lei, a schoolbag - at least 300 lei, while the price of a book is at least 40 lei. The PLDM organized at least one sports event in Soroca, where there were offered prizes to the total value of 3,600 lei. The PL held at least one sports competition with prizes in the form of diplomas, medals and 50 books.
The parties also staged different electoral activities before the registration of the election runners. The PDM organized concerts in Telenesti and Cahul and a meal for Afghan war veterans in Drochia. Representatives of the PLDM went to homes of residents of Chisinau municipality and questioned them about the problems faced in the community, the party’s policy and the possibility of voting the PLDM in the November 30 elections.
In Rezina, the director of the branch of Rezina-gaz told the employees whom to vote for in the PDM’s primary. He also obliged them to submit applications for joining this party.
