13 schools could be repaired with money provided for vote recount, opinions

“Over 13 million lei means 13 fully renovated schools,” the first deputy president of the PLDM Mihai Godea said in a program on the public station Radio Moldova, referring to the amount needed to recount the votes cast in the November 28 early parliamentary elections, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The request to recount the votes looks like a gesture of despair on the part of the Communists Party. They realize that the vote recount will not change the election outcome,” Mihai Godea said. However, Godea considers the vote recount will have a positive effect as it will exclude any suspicion as regards the violation of the electoral norms in the November 28 elections for the next four years. The invitee from the PL Valeriu Munteanu expressed his concern about the large amount of money that is to be spent on vote recount. “This money could be used to build a kindergarten for 150 children in Moldova. The Communists who demanded that the votes be recounted should remember this when they will go through Moldova’s villages to see how many kindergartens had been destroyed during the last eight years,” Valeriu Munteanu said. In the same program, the PCRM’s jurist Sergiu Sarbu said the sum for vote recount announced by the Central Election Commission is four times larger than the costs incurred last year, when the votes were recounted at the request of the center-right forces. “We cannot understand why the sum is so large. The Communists Party is not to blame for the fact that the election results were determined incorrectly,” Sergiu Sarbu said. The Constitutional Court ordered a vote recount after the PCRM filed a challenge, arguing they identified multiple violations in the additional voter lists, mistakes in vote counting and in drawing up voting reports. The vote recount started today, December 15. The results will be announced on December 17.