High school and university students, who have temporary residence visas will be able to vote at their permanent residence based on a declaration, the Central Electoral Commission announced at the end of its June 16 session, Info-Prim Neo reports. Political parties have expressed their concerns regarding the real possibilities for students to vote. Most of them have temporary residence visas in Chisinau, or other places where they study. During the elections, however, they will at best be at their permanent residencies, therefore at their parents’, or other working or recreation sites. CEC’s Deputy Chair, Renata Lapti doesn’t regard this as a problem. “In the period before the elections on April 5, the procedure of submitting declarations for all persons who from various motives were staying in another place than their official residence, have functioned flawlessly”, she argued. According to the electoral legislation, in order to participate in the elections, Moldovan citizens with the right to vote, which will be staying in another place than the one indicated in their residence visa, can submit declarations for changing their place of staying at the City Halls of the locality where they will stay in the day of elections. These declarations will be sent to CEC, which will systemize them and replace the solicitants’ names form the initial voting rolls and put them in the voting rolls of the precincts of the localities were the applicants will be during the elections. Citizens who have turned 18, but who cannot find their names in the main voting rolls will be included in the additional rolls on the basis of the identity card which confirms the voter’s age and residence.