The Party of Socialists (PSRM) expects the election campaign will be tough, but says that it is ready for it. The party will have representatives at each polling place and observers who will oversee the voting process on the election day, IPN reports.
“As a party, we want these elections to be correct, to be impartially covered by the media and the political parties to subscribe to that code of conduct in the campaign that we signed,” the leader of the PSRM Zinaida Grecheanyi told a news conference on January 10. As to the PSRM’s candidates in single-member constituencies, the politician said 46 of them presented lists with signatures. About 35,000 signatures were collected in all.
According to the party’s ideological secretary Ion Ceban, special departments will monitor how the electoral opponents and the media behave in the election campaign and in elections so as to make sure the electoral legislation is not violated. The PSRM already signed the responsibility statement concerning the financing of initiative groups for supporting candidates in the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019.
In the shortest period of time, the PSRM’s representative to the Central Election Commission will sign the declaration of conduct on the conditions and method of financially supporting candidates in the campaign prior to the parliamentary elections and the national consultative referendum of February 24, 2019.
Maxim Lebedinski, the party’s representative with the right of consultative vote at the Central Election Commission, said that some of the parties, candidates or potential candidates in elections violated the electoral legislation before the election campaign. The violations include the use of administrative resources by electoral contenders and admission of persons who were convicted by court or are under investigation to the electoral race.
Maxim Lebedinski said some of the competitors use the image of foreign persons in electoral agitation and this is a reason for removal from the election campaign. There appeared clone candidates and national TV channels are used in the interests of a candidate and the Broadcasting Coordination Council will be notified of this.
The Central Election Commission registered the PSRM as an electoral contender on January 2. The party has 54 candidates in the national constituency, while its candidates in single-member constituencies are being registered.
