Promo-Lex points to positive and negative trends in election campaign

The Promo-Lex Association, it its report on the monitoring of the election campaign covering the period between October 13 and 25, enumerates a number of violations admitted by election contenders. At the same time, experts of the NGO established positive trends compared with the previous elections, Info-Prim Neo reports. The negative trends identified by the observers are determined by the conflict situations at a number of electoral districts, deficient financial reporting on the parties’ expenditure in the campaign, insufficiency of places for election posters, etc. Thus, the Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, the Moldova Noastra Alliance and other parties did not present information about the traveling costs incurred when going to meetings with the voters. The election posters of some of the contenders do not contain information about the number of copies and name of the publishing house. The European Action Movement and the Humanist Party of Moldova did not include street advertising in the expenditure. Practically all the election contenders placed posters in unauthorized places. The report also points to the first electoral incidents, like the intention of the Social-Democratic Party’s candidate Serghei Chiose, the head of Taraclia district, to oblige the employees of a company to join this party, the break-in committed at the Democratic Party’s office in Soroca, and the alleged beating of a voter in Ungheni by Voronin’s bodyguards. The experts say the Social-Democrat leader Victor Shelin and the Liberal-Democrat leader, Premier Vlad Filat resort to ’electoral presents’. They also ascertained cases of use of administrative resources. Promo-Lex expressed its concern about the lack of measures aimed at ensuring the electoral rights of the Transnistrians. It recommends the electoral bodies, the local administrations and the election contenders to remove these drawbacks. The Association’s head Ion Manole said there are yet positive trends, including the fact that the candidates who hold public posts quit for the period of the election campaign and that the electoral authority is equidistant.