The independent candidate to the position of a parliamentarian, Stefan Uratu, vows to sue the Central Election Commission (CEC), if it declines his electoral sign for the April 5 parliamentary elections. Stefan Uratu, who has suspended his capacity of president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights from Moldova, Wednesday told a news conference the CEC had postponed the registration of his label for the second time, on March 10. In the sitting of March 10, the CEC members deliberated on the correctitude whether the name of Helsinki City should be present on the candidate's electoral sign. CEC secretary Iurie Ciocan said the name of the Finnish capital cannot be used an electoral symbol, as it's a name of a city and of an international institution. According to Uratu, the CEC even asked the justice and foreign ministries for information whether there were entities holding rights over the sign with the name “Helsinki”. Stefan Uratu has said he wants no trial with the CEC, which would take time and money, but he reserves this right in case the CEC declines his label. The former president of the Helsinki Committee in Moldova says the Helsinki Federation, quartered in Vienna, does not work any longer, and those 44 Helsinki committees, former members of the federation, continue to work being registered by the governments of the countries in which they are based. Stefan Uratu sees a problem in having paid 80% of his election budget to print promotional flyers with his sign, although unregistered yet. Commenting on his chances to enter the Parliament, Stefan Uratu has referred to those some 2,500 petitions annually considered by the Helsinki Committee from Moldova. “Tens of thousands of people participate in those petitions. Obviously, at least a part of them should remember the role and the goal pursued by president candidate Stefan Uratu,” the candidate said. He also counts on the Academic environment, on lawyers to draft laws and on the non-governmental sector. Stefan Uratu was registered by the CEC on February 27 and will be on position 13 on the ballots.