Non-affiliated MPs propose revising electoral legislation

Non-affiliated deputies Vitalia Pavlicenco and Ion Neagu have set a legislative initiative, which provides for returning to the electoral threshold of 4%, allowing the formation of electoral blocs and the access to public functions of the people with multiple citizenship, Info-Prim Neo reports. Vitalia Pavlicenco, the leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), at the Parliament’s sitting on December 11, asked for including the proposed draft law into the order of the day. Pavlicenco insisted on hastening the examining procedure, because “there are insistent recommendations of European organizations and of those monitoring the pre-electoral political process this year, in Moldova”. Parliament’s president Marian Lupu suggested to include the draft into the Parliament’s agenda for the next week, taking into account that the deputies were not given the necessary documents. In the spring of this year, the parliament operated modifications to the electoral legislation, which provide for raising the electoral threshold from 4 to 6%, banning the formation of electoral blocs and appointing the persons with multiple citizenship as civil servants. The European Organizations – the OSCE and the Venice Commission – recommended the Moldovan authorities to remove these restrictions from the electoral legislation till the parliamentary elections of 2009.