Head of the election observation mission of “Promo-LEX” Association Pavel Postica considers a part of the people voted consciously, regardless of what the candidates promised in the election campaign, while another part voted according to their foreign policy preference. “I ascertained with regret that another part of electors voted not consciously or informed, but how their chief, the priest, the mayor or the institution head from the Transnistrian region told them to because it is impossible to campaign on an uncontrolled territory and attract such a large number of voters from there to support one candidate,” Pavel Postica said in an electoral debate entitled “Electoral technologies and electoral technologists: lessons learned and lessons to be learned from the campaign prior to presidential elections” that was organized by IPN News Agency in partnership with Radio Moldova.
“The vote of the people from the Transnistrian region wasn’t conscious and informed. No candidate staged meetings with voters in the region. On the TV channels there, there were broadcast no electoral video clips of candidates and therefore their vote cannot be considered ‘informed’,” stated Pavel Postica.
He added that we all have to learn the lesson about the establishing of polling places abroad and this should be the duty of the Central Election Commission only and the Government should step aside.
“We also have a lot to learn as regards election campaign funding and violation of the relevant legal provisions, and must also realize that civil society should not become 100% involved in the election campaign monitoring. The candidate must do this as civil society is then called to account at a time when we only monitor the situation so that the elections are held in accordance with the law,” said the head of the election observation mission of “Promo-LEX”.
Pavel Postica noted he expected that most of the candidates for the presidency of Moldova will speak to the people about the powers of the President and the role of this in the state. For their part, the candidates included some interesting, but inappropriate dishes for the voters in the ‘election campaign’ menu. The electoral message should have been structured depending on the powers of the President and what this intends to do in the country. “Anyway the campaign caught the interest of more people than in the 2014 elections. This shows that luring the people with a menu that will not be served till the end, either you win the elections or not, is still an efficient method,” he stated.
Pavel Postica concluded that a positive element of the election campaign was that the people showed that they want to choose the President themselves and confirmed this by their vote.
The public debate “Electoral technologies and electoral technologists: lessons learned and lessons to be learned from the campaign prior to presidential elections” is the 66th of the series of debates “Developing political culture by public debates” that are held by IPN in partnership with Radio Moldova and with support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation of Germany.
