PL, PLDM and AMN disclose first evidence about rigging elections

The leaders of those three center-right parties to enter the Parliament, according to the CEC's data, have brought evidence to prove the April 5 elections were counterfeited through the voters lists, at a news conference Wednesday, April 15, Info-Prim Neo reports. Mihai Ghimpu from the Liberal Party (PL), Vlad Filat from the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) and Serafim Urecheanu from Our Moldova Alliance have said the decision of the Chisinau Appellate Court to ban their access to the voters lists was the Communists' (PCRM) decision. But, anyway, those three political parties managed to copy a big part of the voters lists from districts, on the basis of which they can track “falsifying trends.” “The authorities do not want to allow us have access to the Chisinau lists especially from Rascani sector, where where suppose most of the frauds were committed,” Urecheanu said. Vlad Filat has given this example: “Cahul district has 65 polling stations, of which we checked 28 , that is 43%. In those we discovered 2,334 breaches. From what we have checked, this is 10.6%.” The three leaders are inclined to believe from 10 to 30 percent of the votes were forged per total. “Now we understand very well the days of April 6 and 7. Why did the Communists allowed to happen what happened: violence and devastating the buildings of the Parliament and the Presidency? Voronin recognizes he opened the access to those buildings on purpose,” said Urecheanu, who came up with the explanation: “In order to drive away the attention of the domestic and international community from the results of the elections. And we compare it to the year 1933, when Hitler set the Reichstag on fire in order to crack down the opposition.” When asked what they are to do with the unveiled frauds, the three leaders said they would submit them to the Constitutional Court, hinting they expected it to invalidate the April 5 vote and call repeated elections. PL leader Mihai Ghimpu says: “It is correct that we present the CEC the first pieces of evidence and request it to prolong the term to check the lists. It is not going to accept it without proofs.” Although not specifying what percentage from the voters lists they managed to process, the politicians showed journalists documents by which they want to prove that 5,166 people voted in a number of polling stations, 3,280 voted with the same personal code, 1,600 people voted with other documents than the ID card, 1,000 are forged. The three politicians have said that, although the local authorities had had their own voters lists, several days before the vote, the Information Development Ministry sent them its lists. When the turmoil was on in Chisinau on April 7, President Vladimir Voronin decorated Info Development Minister Pavel Buceatchi with the Order Gloria Muncii (Labor Glory). The Central Election Commission announces in a communique the that the votes recounting goes alright on Wednesday. Th recount was asked by the Communist leader, Vladimir Voronin.