Civic activists are concerned that fewer women will enter the future Parliament compared with the previous legislature. Alina Andronache, specialist in public relations and advocacy at the National Women’s Studies and Information Center “Partnership for Development”, has told IPN that the women on all the lists of candidates for MP in the national constituency of parties that already registered their candidates with the Central Election Commission are placed mainly at the end and do not have chances of entering Parliament.

According to Alinai Andronache, all the political parties that presented the lists of candidates respect the women’s quota of at least 40%, but this is not enough for the women to be better represented in Parliament. None of the political parties whose candidates were registered has more than three women among the top ten candidates. Most of the parties have only one woman among the first ten candidates.

The expert noted the number of women in the decision-making process decreased during the past ten years even if the authorities in the period undertook to increase the number of women holding executive posts.