Moldovan lawyers working abroad, who challenge the non-ensuring of the right to vote in the presidential runoff ten days ago, said they hope the complaints submitted to court by Moldovans from the diaspora will be examined in several days, before the Constitutional Court pronounces on the legality of elections, IPN reports.
In an interview for Radio Free Europe, lawyer Eduard Digore said he notified the Constitutional Court of the submission of complains and this is actually obliged to wait for the examination of these complaints to be completed.
“The Constitutional Court cannot ignore a trial that involves thousands of Moldovans from the diaspora,” stated Eduard Digore.
The Centru Court has neither accepted nor rejected the complaints so far. On November 18, the Central Election Commission said it received several thousand challenges, but it only took cognizance of these as they were filed inappropriately.
In two days, the Central Election Commission remitted the report on the runoff results to the Constitutional Court, which is to validate or invalidate the elections within ten days, but not before the courts examine the complaints submitted in accordance with the law.
Ex-candidate for President Maia Sandu said she also filed a lawsuit, but requested to hold accountable the president of the Central Election Commission Alina Russu and Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Galbur, who are accused of not ensuring the right to vote of the Moldovans abroad after 17 polling places in the runoff ran out of ballots and thousands of people could not vote.
According to lawyer Eduard Digore, 143 of these voters managed to mandate two layers to represent them in court.
