The Liberal Party (PL) will not delegate representatives to work on the commission that will create single-member constituencies for the parliamentary elections, the party’s chairman Mihai Ghimpu announced in the talk show “In Depth” on Pro TV Chisinau channel, IPN reports.
Mihai Ghimpu said this commission should consist of those who voted for the introduction of the mixed-member electoral system. Even if the PL was a government partner of the Democratic Party, the latter discussed the draft law not with the Liberals, but with the Socialists. “We challenged this law in the Constitutional Court and do not recognize anything. It is unconstitutional,” stated the Liberal leader.
He wondered what kind of democracy will be there when an MP reaches Parliament with 600 vote gained, while another one with 30,000 votes and what equal voting rights have the citizens from the right side of the Nistru and those from the left side. “That’s why, after the elections of 1990 that were based on the uninominal system, owing to the situation on the left side of the Nistru we switched over to the party-list proportional representation system,” said Mihai Ghimpu.
