AMN asks for ousting PCRM from race

Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) asks the Central Election Committee (CEC) to disqualify the Communists Party (PCRM) and oust it from the electoral race. AMN candidate Victor Osipov stated at a news conference on Tuesday that his party tendered the CEC and the Broadcasting Coordinating Council (BCC) a notification in which the party declares itself gravely affected by the unfair conditions and the illegal methods applied by the PCRM and some media, Info-Prim Neo reports. “As the electoral campaign started, the law has started to be breeched more and more and took a graver shape, and the main generator of breaking the electoral norms is the PCRM, followed by the People's Christian Democratic Party (PPCD),” Osipov said. On February 7 in the National Palace (run by the Government), not having the status of an electoral competitor, the PCRM staged a big electoral event, at which it launched its platform and list of candidates for the parliamentary elections, AMN finds. “The PCRM has openly, deliberately and defiantly breeched article 47 of the Electoral Code, allowing electioneering only after the candidate is registered by the electoral body.” That party filed its papers, but was not registered yet. It had to wait for the CEC's final decision,” reads the AMN's notification. According to Victor Osipov, the AMN recorded a series of violations of the Broadcasting Code by media preferring the ruling party and presented it in positive light, ignoring the opposition's views. “The public company “Teleradio-Moldova”, NIT and N4 and other broadcasters violated the Electoral Code, illegally covering the illegal actions of the PCRM,” the AMN candidate highlighted, reading from the notification. He added EU TV describing it as being used by the PPCD as party-owned station. Only Pro TV and TV7 ensured the opinion pluralism, the AMN finds. Victor Osipov has added that, on January 26, AMN's Valeriu Cosarciuc presented the monitoring committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe a compilation of signals about the pre-electoral climate in Moldova. “But the representatives of the red-orange coalition from the parliament determined the monitoring committee not to discuss the Moldovan issue by not going to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,” Osipov stated. The CEC has not adopted any decision as to the AMN's notification as yet.