PDM suspects plans to rig elections

The difference between the number of voters included in the electoral registers for 2007 and 2009 is a sign that there are plans to rig the elections, the vice president of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) Oazu Nantoi told a news conference on Wednesday, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Nantoi, the electoral registers in 2007 included 2 403 239 voters. For the April 5, 2009 elections, the Central Election Commission announced a figure of 2 549 804 voters or by 146 565 voters more. “Given that during the past few years Moldova has witnessed a mass exodus of people, this number could not grow so much,” Oazu Nantoi said. He stated that the PDM possess information that the figures in districts have been swelled. “Those that have administrative resources at the disposal know how to use them. Somebody is promoted so as to pass the election threshold, while the others are relegated,” the vice president of the Democratic Party said, without giving names. “This information worries us if we relate it to the fact that the antidemocratic coalition in the Chisinau Municipal Council promoted persons without experience loyal to the ruling party to posts in the election commissions. In addition, there are inadmissible cases when the representatives of the PDM in election commissions are intimidated by representatives of the PCRM,” said Oazu Nantoi, who is also a municipal councilor. The PDM also supposes that the international observers on behalf of the CIS will have the task of legalizing the rigged elections and annihilating the exact report of the OSCE Mission. The PDM calls on the Opposition parties to launch a campaign to check the registers of voters in every constituency so as to foil the attempts to rig the elections. The party intends to verify the lists of voters even if no other party responds to the call. Earlier, the Moldova Noastra Alliance Party also said that the government was preparing to rig the elections by falsifying the number of voters.