A number of 146 electoral competitors in the February 24 parliamentary elections were registered in single-member constituencies by January 13, 2019. Of the total number of candidates, five are independents, while the others represent parties.
Rodica Sîrbu, head of the Central Election Commission’s Communication, Public Relations and the Media Division, has told IPN that 401 applications for registering initiative groups to support candidates in single-member constituencies were filed by the January 4 deadline. By January 13, 171 initiative groups submitted subscription lists and the documents required for registering candidates.
Among the politicians registered in single-member constituencies so far are: the leader of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc (single-member constituency No. 17, Nisporeni); Prime Minister Pavel Filip (single-member constituency No. 20, Strășeni); the leader of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” Andrei Năstase (single-member constituency No. 33, Chisinau); the leader of the Shor Party Ilan Shor (single-member constituency No. 18, Orhei); the leader of the Party of Socialists Zinaida Grecheanyi (single-member constituency No. 1, Briceni).
Only six political parties were registered in the national constituency so far. These are: the Democratic Party; the electoral bloc ACUM; the Party of Communists; the Party of Socialists; the Shor Party and the People’s Movement “Antimafie”.
Applications to register candidates as electoral contenders in the national constituency and in single-member constituencies can be filed by January 24, 2019.
