The election threshold was decreased from 6% to 5%, and the turnout to validate the elections: from ½ to 1/3 of the voters. These modifications to the Election Code were adopted in the second reading by the Communist MPs on June 15. At the same sitting, the last of the present parliament, the legislature entitled the Government to issue ordinances. The opposition abstained from voting. After two failed attempts to elect the president of the country, the Constitutional Court stated on June 12 that there were circumstances necessary to dissolve the parliament. President in office Vladimir Voronin is to announce the date of the early elections. According to a bill, voted in the second reading on June 15, the run-up can last for less than 45 days. The atmosphere in the future parliament will depend on “how the Communists will understand to organize the free and fair elections,” said PLDM leader Vlad Filat. The parliamentarian has expressed hope “the policemen, verderers, prosecutors and other functionaries” will not go on acting as electoral representatives of the PCRM, but will act according to their statutes and duties. MP Leonid Bujor has quoted from a notification by AMN (Our Moldova Alliance) to the international organizations and diplomatic missions from Moldova, asking for opinions of independent experts about overpassing the crisis situation. AMN has reiterated that the April 5 parliamentary elections were rigged, over 300 people were arrested and ill-treated, the opposition goes on being cracked down, the activity of the reprimand institutions against the people sharing other opinions than the PCRM grows more intense, etc. Liberal leader Mihai Ghimpu has announced the PL will make public the Communists' ways of rigging the elections at a news conference.