Three of the nine members of the Central Election Commission (CEC) formulated a dissenting opinion about the results of the April 15 vote recount, Info-Prim Neo reports. On April 21, the CEC approved the report on the recount of the votes cast in the April 5 elections. The recount confirmed the official results announced earlier by the CEC. According to them, the Communist Party won the elections, polling 49.48% of the vote. The CEC members Nicolae Garbu, Mihai Busuleac and Vasile Gafton signed the proceedings regarding the recount results with certain reserves and expressed a dissenting opinion. The three said that when adding up the figures, the CEC did not take into account a number of inaccuracies that can be regarded as falsifications. According to Nicolae Garbu, who examined the proceedings drawn up by the electoral offices from five districts, a large number of signatures of the members of the offices did not coincide with the signatures put on the proceedings written on April 5. Nicolae Garbu said that the falsifications are obvious and proposed that the CEC should ask for additional time from the Constitutional Court to check all the proceedings and that the General Prosecutor’s Office should investigate these violations. The proposal was rejected by most of the CEC members. On the same day, the Liberal Party (PL) filed a contestation to the CEC. Representatives of the PL say they found 10,000 false votes after verifying 25% of the electoral registers. The Commission refused to examine the party’s contestation. The CEC secretary Iurie Ciocan argued that the Commission does not have the right to examine the contestations lodged after the finalization of the recount. He also said that the contestations concerning electoral bodies’ actions or inaction can be examined only by an independent body. The PL’s contestation and the dissenting opinion of the three CEC members will be attached to the CEC report on the vote recount results that will be submitted to the Constitutional Court. The Court is to decide whether the April 5 lections were valid or not. The recount was ordered by the Constitutional Court at the request of the Communist Party. The Opposition did not take part in the recount, saying that only the verification of the electoral rolls can help identify the irregularities committed in elections.