Executive director of the Institute for Development and Social Initiative “Viitorul” Igor Munteanu considers that neither these elections convinced the people that the state institutions can be recovered, IPN reports.
In the program “In Depth” on PRO TV Chisinau channel, Munteanu said the election campaign was undoubtedly dirty, but the election process arouses a series of questions, including as regards the voting by Transnistrians, given the allegations that these people were paid to vote for a particular candidate. Also, those who will lose the elections will most probably challenge their organization in court.
Vasile Botnaru, director of the Radio Free Europe office in Chisinau, said it’s not clear how the CEC knew that the number of Transnistrian voters will rise, but didn’t have the same presentiment in the case of the Moldovan diaspora. The functionaries will definitely invoke the legal provisions, including those allowing the Moldovans to register beforehand on the CEC’s website so as to decide the number of polling places abroad, and also the fact that a polling place cannot manage more than 3,000 ballots.
Botanu noted it is a big difference when the people abroad collect money among the diaspora and organize transport to the polling lace and when someone takes by bus 50 people to the polls in an organized way, as in the case of the Transnistrian voters.
