The MPs refused to introduce a bill that allows college and university students to vote in the presidential elections where they study in the agenda of the November 3 sitting. Bill author, unaffiliated MP Valeriu Giletski said the bill is rather technical in character as the students can vote where they study in the parliamentary elections and should be allowed to vote this way in the presidential elections too, even if the change will be made in the election campaign, between two rounds of voting, IPN reports.
The Socialist and Communist MPs expressed their dissatisfaction with such a proposal. Socialist MP Vladimir Turcan said the students can vote at the domicile as the elections are held on Sunday and they can travel home on this day. The Communist leader Vladimir Voronin warned Valeriu Giletski against changing the rules of the game during the game.
The Lib-Dems supported Valeriu Giletski’s proposal, noting that the students were deprived of a right that belongs to them, while the low voter turnout among the young people in the first round of the presidential elections showed that the students should be allowed to vote at the place where they study, as in the case of the parliamentary elections.
The initiative didn’t garner the number of votes needed for being included in the agenda.
