The Party of Communists (PCRM) is preparing for early elections. The party’s chairman Vladimir Voronin told a news conference that the PCRM will challenge the constitutionality of three decisions of the Central Election Commission (CEC), IPN reports.

The CEC’s decisions that the PCRM considers are unconstitutional are: the decision to register the Communist Reformist Party as election runner; the decision to implement the Electronic Register of Voters, which was nonfunctional in most of the polling places, and the decision to allow a camouflaged electoral bloc – the Party of Socialists, whose list of candidates for MP included the head of the “United Moldova” Party Vladimir Turcan – to run in elections. The PCRM demands that all the members of the CEC should be dismissed.

Asked what position they will adopt if the elections are validated, Vladimir Voronin said the Communist parliamentary group will act in the opposition. “What other solution do we have than being in the opposition? We will not urge the people to erect barricades. We will go and tell them what the consequences of their vote are,” he stated. The Communist leader noted that the PCRM will form a coalition neither with the pro-European parties, which destroyed people’s lives during five years, nor with the PSRM, which consists of traitors.

With 98.26% of the votes counted, the PCRM gained 17.71% of the poll, as opposed to 39% in 2010.