Mayor of Cimislia town and Minister of Information Development should be sued, journalists

Legal action should be taken against the mayor of Cimislia town and the Minister of Information Development, journalists Valeriu Saharneanu, Arcadie Gherasim and Petru Bogatu consider. The observers said that a Cimislia voter, Zinaida Bazatin, was written in the electoral rolls 52 times, but with different data from the identity card, Info-Prim Neo reports. The journalists stated that they found out about hundreds of violations and irregularities on the election day. One of the most serious incidents was when a person accompanied by two Communist councilors from Sangera fired and injured the son of the AMN leader in this settlement. Valeriu Saharneanu, Arcadie Gherasim and Petru Bogatu said that a member of an electoral office was seen taking a batch of ballots into the polling station. There were cases when the ballots and event the stamp “Voted” were taken out of the polling place. The police stopped a number of buses and took the identity cards of young parsons that were going from Ungheni and Orhei to Chisinau to exercise their right to vote. The journalists also said there were filed hundreds of applications, including about persons who were registered in foreign dwellings, as it happened to the PLDM leader Vlad Filat. The international observers were brutalized and expelled from the country. “The Communists are determined to ignore Moldova’s image. They don’t care how the country will be regarded abroad. They only want to win the elections at any cost. The Central Election Commission should deal with the applications and inform itself,” the journalists stressed, adding that they are waiting for international observers’ assessments of the early legislative elections in Moldova.