PNL officially registered as election runner

The Central Election Commission (CEC) Friday decided to register the National Liberal Party (PNL) as election contender in the July 29 early parliamentary elections after checking the documents filed by the party. The PNL will be on the seventh position in the ballots, Info-Prim Neo reports. The list is headed by the PNL leader Vitalia Pavlicenco, followed by Anatol Revenco, the party’s vice president. The third place is taken by Alexandra Can. 30% of the candidates for MP on the PNL’s ticket are from Chisinau. The party says that it will plead for liberal internal reforms in the business sector. “We are for the liberalization of the fiscal system, improvement of the business climate and development of the private sector,” Vitalia Pavlicenco said. The PNL also pleads for Moldova’s withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States through a strategic partnership with Romania, which would enable Moldova to join NATO and the European Union. “I think that we have chances to enter the Parliament even if we have a negative electoral context owing to the restricted access to the public mass media,” the PLN leader said. Twelve candidates on the PNL’s list declared they hold dual nationality, while 14 said they submitted the documents for obtaining the nationality of another state. The CEC also approved the electoral symbol of the PNL – an arrow in a square with the PLN abbreviation below. Municipal councilor Mihai Severovan was designated the PNL’s representative with a consultative right to vote in the composition of the CEC. In the April 5 elections, the PNL ran under the list of the European Action Movement, polling 1.01% of the vote. The election threshold was 6%.