Law on uninominal vote is unfair: Eugen Tomac

Eugen Tomac, the candidate of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) from Romania, in the elections for the Romanian Parliament, who had won the majority of votes in Moldova, but did not get to the Parliament, says that the law on the uninominal vote is unfair. Tomac declares himself the moral representative of the Basarabians in the Bucharest Parliament, Info-Prim Neo reports. On Sunday, December 7, Tomac aired a gratitude message to the Basarabians who voted for him. “It is for the first time that Basarabia starts to matter in the Romanian political context.” In the elections of November 30, the Basarabians were called to elect their representatives in those two chambers in the Romanian Parliament. The Basarabians offered me their trust in an absolute majority. This thing obliges me to consider myself their moral representative in Bucharest,” Eugen Tomac said. “Though Basarabia gave me a strong trust vote, uninominal college 2 for the Romanians from abroad was lost, just lacking several votes, resulted from the other polling stations from Asia. The maximum percentage in these elections makes me believe that the immigrant Romanians supported my political program and ideals I fight for,” Tomac says. According to him, the uninominal vote law is unfair, because it reallocated the mandates to people ranked the third and fourth, absolutely non-representative people for the Romanians from abroad. “In this system, the candidate who won the largest percentage of votes, loses through re-distributing in favor of a person who won threefold less votes. How credible will that candidate be for the voters from abroad?” Tomac wonders. He says that this law must be urgently modified, so that the Romanians from abroad were represented in the Romanian Parliament equitably. Though he has not won the deputy’s mandate, Eugen Tomac is glad that the Basarabians’ votes made PD-L a winner of the parliamentary elections. The politician promises that the work in favor of the Romanians from abroad and, especially, the Basarabians, will go on: “I hope that with Romanian President Traian Basescu, we shall be closer to Basarabia and the Romanians from everywhere.” The new electoral legislation from Romania enabled the Romanians from abroad to cast their ballots for the representatives in the Romanian Parliament from Bucharest. Eugen Tomac won 1,427 votes, the candidate of the National Liberal Party, Nicolae Dabija – 961 votes, and the candidate of the Social Democratic Party and the Conservative Party Alliance, Tudor Pantiru – 533 votes. Although Pantiru ranked the third, he became the deputy for college 2, including Moldova, after the 2nd re-distribution.