Members of the PAS, PPPDA, PUN, AUR and other parties are protesting in front of the Central Election Commission against the Commission’s decision not to raise the number of polling stations abroad from 139 to 162. The protesters chanted: “Resign!”, “We want to vote!”, “Diaspora is near us!”, “Diaspora votes!”, “Lebedinschi go away!” (proposal to keep the number of 139 stations was formulated by CEC secretary, e.n.)”, “Traitor!”, “In jail!”, IPN reports.

“Let’s combine forces and seek the revision of the decision by which our diaspora was wronged. We want more polling stations to be established in the diaspora, where hundreds of thousands of people preregistered, and that the establishment of two more polling stations on an uncontrolled territory is banned. We seek democracy as under democracy the thieves stay in jail,” said the leader of the PPPDA Andrei Năstase.

PAS acting president Igor Grosu called on the people to protest peacefully and not to block traffic. “The bandits cannot calm down. They tried to shut the Constitutional Court up so that the date of elections is not set and then to say that there is no money and to keep the number of polling stations at 139, which is an insult, a blow to the diaspora,” said the politician. He warned CEC secretary general Maxim Lebedinschi that the diaspora will always consider him a traitor and called on the other CEC members to review the decision until it is not too late.

On June 5, after controversial discussions at the meeting of the Central Election Commission, the draft decision to raise the number of polling stations abroad for the snap parliamentary elections of July 11 from 139 to 162, which was presented by the Commission’s president Dorin Cimil, could not garner the necessary number of votes. Maxim Lebedinschi suggested keeping the number of stations at 139 and his proposal was accepted.