The candidate for President of the Party “Action and Solidarity” (PAS) Maia Sandu said that when registering the last four applicants as election runners, the Central Election Commission applied double standards as it didn’t thoroughly examine the subscription lists presented by these. Moreover, some of those registered are actually ‘tick-candidates’ employed by the current government to mislead the voters, IPN reports.

Maia Sandu told a news conference that the CEC carefully examined the lists with signatures collected in her favor, but wasn’t as attentive in relation to the last four candidates. If the signatures had been examined meticulously, it would have turned out that not all of the four candidates had the necessary number of signatures for being registered as contenders.

The politician considers that candidate Maia Laguta was registered namely in order to mislead the people who intend to vote for Maia Sandu given that they both have the same name. According to Maia Sandu, this way the current administration, especially the Democratic Party, plans to rig the elections.

The leader of the PAS said she possesses information that representatives of the Democratic Party collected signatures until the last day even if the Democrats’ candidate Marian Lupu was already registered as an electoral competitor.

Also, the lists presented by Maia Laguta to the CEC included the subscription lists of the rejected applicant Roman Mihaes and this means that the same persons collected signatures for the two. Moreover, Laguta presented empty subscription lists that were already stamped by mayors and this is against the law as the lists must be signed and stamped after they are compiled.

The politician believes the registration of ‘tick-candidates’ forms part of the plan of the first deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc to steal her ‘identity’ and to prevent her from winning the October 30 presidential elections.