President Maia Sandu does not believe the augmentation of the number of ballots to 10,000 per polling station established abroad is a solution as it will be impossible to process so many ballots. The only solution, as she considers, is to establish more polling stations, IPN reports.

“The number stipulated now by the law – the limit of 5,000 ballots per station - is the optimal one. I think we should make effort to persuade the authorities, the Government to establish more polling stations abroad,” Maia Sandu stated in a live dialog with the Moldovan diaspora in Germany.

In another development, President Sandu said they are considering the possibility of introducing electronic voting, but this issue is more difficult as the legal framework needs to be changed. “Regrettably, we do not have now 51 responsible MPs who would want to amend the law,” she stated, noting work is done on the concept as the law must be drafted first and the alterative vote should be well planned so as to exclude the possibility of vote rigging.