The Central Election Commission (CEC) began to register the contenders for the November 30 parliamentary elections on October 3. In the morning, the required documents were submitted by a number of political parties, IPN reports.
These parties are: the Communist Party; the Democratic Party; the Communist Reformist Party; the Party of Socialists; the National Liberal Party; the People’s Movement “Antimafie”; the Liberal Democratic Party; the People’s Party, and the Liberal Party.
The group of the Lib-Dems was headed by MP Valeriu Strelet. Asked about the rumors that Prime Minister Iurie Leanca has his own list of candidates, Strelet said such rumors are disseminated by colleagues who are dissatisfied with the fact that they weren’t included in the list. He expressed his confidence that the PLDM will win a large number of seats, not less than 35, and will thus offer a powerful platform for a pro-European coalition to the other Democratic parties.
“We are the first by order of registration and will be the first after the elections too,” said Communist MP Artur Reshetnikov. He noted that the PCRM aims to win a sufficient number of seats for governing the country during the next four years.
The leader of the People’s Party Alexandru Oleinic said the party’s symbol is the apple and their goal is to beat all the other election runners.
Democratic MP Sergiu Sarbu said he submitted the documents confident that the Moldovan political class will be reformed and the PDM started the reform by a list of candidates who were democratically elected by almost 100,000 members and supporters of the party. He added that as it was the first such primary held in Moldova, they faced some minor problems and the party’s Political Bureau had to make some adjustments.
Liberal lawmaker Valeriu Munteanu said the Liberal Party’s list includes 35 women and 31 people younger than 35.
CEC president Iurie Ciocan announced that the draw for deciding the order in which the parties will be written in ballots will be held at 5pm.
Opposite the CEC’s building, the Association Against Corruption staged a protest against the corrupt candidates. Members of the Association asked that the Central Election Commission should not register the leader of the PLDM Vlad Filat as a candidate as he was earlier dismissed from the post of Premier on suspicion of corruption. The Association’s press officer Radu Soltan has told IPN that the protest is not against a party, but against the corrupt persons. He noted that they support Moldova’s pro-European course.
