The Shor Party denied the accusations made by the leader of the National Unity Party (PUN) Anatol Salaru, who said that the Shor Party received financing from Russia for the election campaign and demanded that the party’s candidate Reghina Apostolova should be excluded from the electoral race, describing them as deceiving, IPN reports.

“The goal is to compromise our election campaign. We have polls and others have polls showing that Reghina Apostolova increased a lot her popular approval rating in this campaign and started to seriously bother other parties and the schemes agreed by these in a move to take over the Chisinau City Hall,” the Shor Party says in a press release.

The party noted it will demonstrate at the Central Election Commission that all the accusations are false and will present evidence for the PUN candidate to be excluded from the electoral race as this seriously violated the electoral legislation.

In a news conference, Anatol Salaru said on May 4 a Russian citizen lent 200,000 lei to a company with mixed Russian-Moldovan capital where one of the founders is a center working under the President of Russia. The same day, this company transferred the given amount to a company with a similar name, which, for its part, transferred the money to the Shor Party. Later, the party spent 190,000 lei of this sum on electoral services, including the electoral publicity of candidate Reghina Apostolova.