“If it’s true that Dodon’s newspapers that were printed clandestinely were returned to the Socialists, this is one more illegality,” said the MP of the Party of Action and Solidarity Sergiu Litvinenco. According to him, in accordance with the legal provisions, the newspapers that were seized from a state publishing house by the police were to be classed as corpus delicti and kept until the investigation is completed. Consequently, convictions and harsh punishment among those who took this decision should inevitably follow IPN reports.

“The whole country yesterday saw how electoral contender Igor Dodon breaks the law and prints electoral newspapers without declaring the costs for them to the Central Election Commission. The police and the CEC were notified of this and the Prosecutor’s Office was asked to manage this case given its powers. Besides the exclusion from the electoral race for the misuse of administrative resources, citizen Igor Dodon should be held criminally accountable for this,” stated Sergiu Litvinenco, noting that namely the candidate for President is the one who signs the financial reports submitted to the CEC.

PAS MP Lilian Carp also reacted to the confiscated papers. He said that 200,000 newspapers were discovered on two minibuses. This is by over 150,000 more newspapers than the staff of Igor Dodon reported to the CEC. The newspapers on the third minibus were being counted. A number of PAS MPs went to the Police Inspectorate to take part in the process of counting the campaign newspapers in favor of candidate Igor Dodon, which were found on the minibus near the “Universul” publishing house on November 11.

Socialistic MP Vlad Batrîncea, who is the head of the electoral staff of independent candidate for President Igor Dodon, in a press briefing earlier today presented a long-term contract between the staff and the given private publishing house, which was transmitted to the police and the CEC. For its part, the publishing house signed a sub-contract with the state publishing house “Universul”. The newspapers of Maia Sandu are printed at the same publishing house. An analysis of the printed materials will be conducted to prove this.