PL, AMN to ask Constitutional Court to re-distribute seats

The PL and the AMN will ask the Constitutional Court (CC) to re-distribute seats in the parliament. On August 7, the Supreme Court of Justice, as had the Appellate Court done on the eve, stated it was not within its competence to make a decision on the suit of the two parties, unhappy with the way the CEC had distributed the seats. “Its a political decision,” Nicole Raileanu, AMN representatives at the Central Electoral Commission, has told Info-Prim Neo. Dumitru Tara, the CC's press officer, earlier had stated that if those complaints reached the Constitutional Court, they would be considered with the file on validating the elections. The PL's and the AMN's representatives at the CEC however insist that their filings should be considered urgently. According to the calculations of those two parties, according to another formula than the one used by the CEC, the PCRM should have 47 seats in the future parliament and the PLDM – 17, PL – 16, PDM – 13, and AMN – 8. According to the CEC's calculating formula, the representativity in the future legislature should be as follows: PCRM – 48, PLDM – 18, PL – 15, PDM – 13, and AMN – 7. “Also in the April 5 elections, 2 seats of the PCRM should have gone to the AMN, but we did not state that, because we went the way of early elections. Now we cannot leave the things as they are,” Raileanu added. According to him, the PL's and the AMN's calculations were endorsed by Moldovan mathematicians from the Academy of Science. “We'll submit the CC all our calculations, we hope the Constitution will be observed this time,” the AMN representative said. The minutes on totalizing the elections was lodged with the CC on Thursday, August 6. The Court has 10 days to say its word on validating the early parliamentary poll of July 29.