The Democratic Party designed the mechanism for registering independent candidates in single-member constituencies in the upcoming parliamentary elections so that these could be excluded from the electoral race at any moment if these show they have potential, the leader of the Party of Communists Vladimir Voronin was quoted by IPN as saying in a program on TVC21 channel.
“If they see that a candidate has authority in a constituency, this could be excluded at any time,” stated Vladimir Voronin.
According to him, the government invented the procedure for collecting signatures that can be invalidated if persons who signed for other politicians also signed for a particular candidate. There was also invented the integrity test that a candidate could fail because of a trivial thing. “There was invented the health check test. All these tests were invented to create barriers. For example, a candidate passed the integrity test, but will not be able to collect signatures. If a candidate gathered the signatures, this cold fail the health test,” said the Communist leader.
As to the proposal to decrease the seats of MPs, Vladimir Voronin said the number of MPs should not be reduced. He made reference to the practice of other post-Soviet states where the population is lower, but the number of MPs is the same as in Moldova or is higher. “The costs should be reduced not for this reason. The economy should be developed. Production, agriculture, the market and exports should be increased so that the country prospers. This should be ensured not by cutting the number of MPs by 10 or 15,” he stated.
As regards the activity of the current legislature, Vladimir Voronin said the legislative body during its mandate should have 312 sittings, but the current one held only 172 sittings, which is 55%. “The MPs did nothing during half of the mandate,” he noted.
