The leader of the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” (PPDA) Andrei Nastase made a call to the Moldovans from the diaspora to mobilize and demand that their right to vote is ensured by preliminary registration on the website inregistrare.md and by applications submitted directly to Moldova’s embassies in the country of residence and to the Central Election Commission, IPN reports.
“Combine forces, either you are in Italy, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Germany, the U.S., Russia or Japan. Any vote matters! Submit collective applications for polling places to be established. Send these applications also to the free media from the country and abroad and inform the OSCE and other international institutions. It is important to organize yourselves now and to be active and to demand that your basic rights, including the right to vote, should be observed,” says the call.
Andrei Nastase also urges the Moldovans from the diaspora to talk to those who are at home, especially people who are poisoned by the media terrorism financed with the US$1billion stolen by Plahotniuc. “I reiterate, on this occasion, a fundamental thesis that I have promoted for a period – the post of President is not a trophy for me. It is an instrument for freeing the state from captivity. Definitely, these presidential elections are crucial for returning to normality, for annihilating the kleptocratic regime that brought us to our knees. I know that you all want to return home. I know that you miss the beauties of our homeland. I know that you want to develop a small business in Moldova, without being robbed by Plahotniuc’s state. I know that you want to reunify your families and raise your children together. We can obtain this. We must be responsible and lay the basis of the big change on October 30. I have confidence in my people,” said the leader of the PPDA.
Under the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, the government must ensure every citizen’s right to vote, including by creating accessible conditions and by helping the people to vote at a minimum cost. “In order to achieve this desideratum, we must use the experience of the Romanian diaspora in the last presidential elections. Owing to the people’s pressure, especially of the diaspora, the foreign minister had to resign because he didn’t ensure the necessary number of polling places were established and this was evident in the first round of voting,” concluded Andrei Nastase.
