The Liberal Party (PL) requests to create conditions for the diaspora to be able to vote without impediments in the parliamentary elections of February 24. In a news conference, the leader of the PL Dorin Chirtoacă called on all the pro-European forces to exert pressure on the government so that this allows the citizens who are abroad to vote with the expired passport or with the identity card. He said by at least 50 more polling places should be established abroad and the personnel at polling places abroad should be supplemented so as to avoid the appearance of lines if there are many voters, IPN reports.

Dorin Chirtoacă said the Liberal Party will have at least two candidates from among the diaspora in the parliamentary elections in the national constituency. In the single-member constituency Western Europe, the PL will have candidate Vasile Calmațui, who represents the diaspora from France. In the other constituencies abroad, the party will yet field candidates who will also represent the diaspora.

According to the Liberal leader, all the pro-European parties actually neglect the diaspora as they do not have candidates from among the Moldovans abroad in the national constituency and in single-member constituencies. “The diaspora is that force in society that enabled to incline the balance in favor of the pro-European forces in all the elections held after 2009. If the diaspora hadn’t voted, the pro-European parties wouldn’t have won the elections. We owe a lot to the diaspora as this maintains the Republic of Moldova by annually transferring about one billion euros. Without this money, the Republic of Moldova wouldn’t survive and would fail,” stated Dorin Chirtoacă.

Vasile Calmațui, who runs on behalf of the Liberal Party in constituency No. 50, said many citizens who are abroad also have Romanian passports and thus didn’t renew the expired Moldovan passports. He called on those whose passports expired to renew these before the elections.