The president of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Iurie Ciocan said there are no reasons for the parliamentary elections held on November 30 to be invalidated and for him to tender his resignation. Ciocan made such statements in the program “Fabrika” on Publika TV channel, IPN reports.

According to Ciocan, the elections hadn’t been rigged, as the Communists and Socialists assert. “Great emphasis is put on the fact that the right to vote wouldn’t have been guaranteed in Moscow. There was no voter who would have entered the polling place and would have been refused to be given a ballot. Unused ballots remained at the polling places established in Russia. As regards the accusation that we do not want to make public the final election outcome so that the pro-European parties could steal a seat from the Socialists, this is an aberration. Only 35 proceedings of electoral bureaus, 30 of which from abroad, are yet to be processed. I think these votes will not influence the results announced so far,” he said

The CEC president also said that the whole team of the Central Election Commission obeyed the law and will not satisfy the resignation request of the Communists and Socialists. “I committed no illegally that would make me feel remorse and thus I have to reasons to resign. I trust the team I head and we did everything according to the law,” he stated.

Iurie Ciocan revealed that Igor Dodon asked him before the elections not to raise the election threshold for the Socialists, as the Party of Communists asked. “I think Dodon has a good memory and remembers what he asked me last Friday. He asked me not to increase the election threshold. I think he will be ashamed to tell other things now,” he stated.

In the same program, Pavel Postica, expert of the Association “Promo-Lex”, which did a parallel vote count, said the Liberal-Democrats could have the same number of seats of MP as the Socialists. “Our results show that the Socialists won 20.35% of the vote, while the PLDM – 20.12%,” he stated.