The Political Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” (PPPDA) calls on Parliament to set the date of a legislative referendum on the annulment of the law to amend the Election Code, which was adopted on July 20, 2017, within 15 days, IPN reports.
The party suggests applying Article 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, which provides that the national sovereignty belongs to the people that can exert this directly, and Article 75, which stipulates that the most important problems of society and the state are put up for a referendum.
In a statement, the PPPDA says the amendment of the electoral system is an antidemocratic and anti-European deviation that seriously affects the multiparty parliamentary system. Thus, there was violated the main principle of the electoral process – representativeness – as half of the future MPs can be chosen by a simple minority. Hundreds of thousands of people risk remaining without representation in the supreme legislative body, even if they take part in elections.
Among other risks and dangers enumerated by the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” as a result of the amendment of the Election Code, especially related to single-member constituencies, are manipulation and influencing of the result in favor of the own candidates by particular business circles and local groups of interest, use of administrative resources of the current power at the local level to advantage the government’s candidates, danger of corruption of voters and MPs chosen as independent candidates and blackmailing of the candidates of opposition parties by subdued coercive bodies with the aim of discouraging participation in elections.
The PPPDA underlined that when the electoral system was modified, those who didn’t support the changes were practically deprived of the right to state their opinion on the issue in the programs broadcast by the National Public Broadcaster “Teleradio-Moldova”.
