Opposition claims it has no access to voters lists

The opposition parties claim the authorities restrict their access to the voters lists, they were to verify during four days, starting April 9. The three parties – PL, PLDM and AMN – ask the Central Election Commission (CEC) to prolong the term by a week, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The Moldovan leadership and Voronin personally run all the mechanisms they manipulate, restrict the access of the representatives of Our Moldova Alliance, of the Liberal Party and of the Liberal Democratic Party to the voters lists. Up to now, we had no access to any list from any district,” AMN leader Serafim Urecheanu told a news conference on April 10. According to AMN spokesman Victor Osipov, the authorities obviously delay the verification of the lists. On Thursday, the representatives of those three parties did not even manage to get connected with the chairpersons of the constituency electoral councils and judges from the districts, whose agreement is necessary to have access to the lists. The AMN has lodged a request with the CEC asking to prolong the term to verify the lists one week more. This action, according to Osipov, is coordinated with the PL and the PLDM. In case the authorities tergiversate the access to the lists, the AMN says it will use all the legal ways to defend itself, including peaceful meetings. When asked by Info-Prim Neo, CEC secretary Iurie Ciocan has said the law does not provide for a concrete term to verify the lists. The Election Code does not even provide for such a procedure. “The CEC ordered to prolong the work of the chairpersons of constituency electoral councils in order to establish the districts in which the parties ask to check the lists. Till Sunday, the exact number of districts will be established. If needed, we'll prolong the activity of the council chairpersons from those districts,” Ciocan said. The CEC instructed the constituency councils to present the lists to those three parties. AMN, PL and PLDM insist to check up the voters lists and to recount the votes, what would prove breeches favoring the ruling party in the April 5 vote. Representatives of the opposition parties maintain thousands of dead people were included, as some other people would have voted in their places. The elections are to be validated by the Constitutional Court. In case the opposition notices there are dead people in the electoral lists, the elections could be decalred void. Earlier this week, thousands of people protested in Chisinau's downtown against the vote results, according to which the Communists Party would have gained have of the ballots.