The National Liberal Party (PNL) on January 17 submitted the documents required for being registered as an electoral contender in the February 24, 2019 elections to the Central Election Commission. The list of candidates for MP in the national constituency includes 40 persons and is headed by the party’s leader Vitalia Pavlichenko.

Contacted by IPN, Vitalia Pavlichenko said the party’s list consists of devoted persons who form a good team. Of the 40 candidates, 16 are women and the proportion of 40% was thus respected. The candidates are from a number of districts of the country. There are also candidates from the diaspora and from the Transnistrian region.

The first 14 candidates on the list include the ten candidates who will also run in single-member constituencies - in Chisinau, in constituency No. 50 westward Moldova and in one of the constituencies intended for the Transnistrian region.

The second place on the list is taken by ex-minister Alexandra Can, who is followed by the first president of the PNL, ex-MP Andrei Iuri-Apostol. The next on the lists are Gheorghe Furdui, who represents the community of Moldovans abroad, Sergiu Ioniță, who runs in Hâncești, PNL secretary general Ion Calmâc, who runs in Căușeni, Nicolae Bîrnaz, who runs in Drochia, head of the 1992 War Veterans Association Tiras-Tighina Anatolie Caraman and ex-commander of the volunteers in Grigoriopol town Alexei Mocreac. 

Under the Election Code, the CEC has seven days to register or refuse to register the fielded candidates.

Six parties have been registered so far as contenders in the national constituency. These are: the Democratic Party, the electoral bloc ACUM, the Party of Communists, the Party of Socialists, the Shor Party and the People’s Movement “Antimafie”. The documents filed by the Political Party “Our Party” and the People’s Will Party are being examined.