The Central Election Commission decided that documents for registering candidates in the parliamentary elections in the national constituency and participants in the national consultative referendum of February 24, 2019 will be accepted during December 26 - January 24 from Monday through Friday between 9am and 4pm, except for January 1 and 7, 2019.
By its decision, the CEC entrusted the electoral councils with the task of creating the polling places by January 19, 2019 and the electoral offices of the polling places by January 29, 2019.
The Ecologist Green Party announced it will take part in the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019 and in the local elections of next summer. The party’s secretary general Vitalie Marinuța said the party pleads for the parliamentary form of government, strengthening of the rule of law, defense of national sovereignty, ensuring of decent living conditions, promotion of the principles of democracy, respect for pluralism and separation of powers in the state.
A national people’s movement called “Powerful President, Powerful State” that will be represented in each district and each locality will be created during the next 30 days, President Igor Dodon announced, saying he will no longer accept those actions that were taken against the presidential institution by the Government and Parliament through the Constitutional Court during the past two years. “I don’t want to call on people to start a revolution, but if something like this continues after the parliamentary elections, and this is possible, we will create the national movement and will see what we should do,” stated President Dodon.
Romania supports only Moldova’s European course without reservations, which is first of all based on the Association Agreement that the Republic of Moldova undertook in the relationship with the EU and that contains values and principles. Many of these values and principles should be respected as such. They are not negotiated and negotiable and should be respected accordingly: the rule of law, democracy, basic freedoms, respect for human rights, Romania’s Ambassador in Chisinau Daniel Ioniță stated in an interview for Radio Free Europe.
The current state of political culture and the specific features of the upcoming elections were discussed by participants in the public debate “Political culture of Moldovan society: current state and trendies” that is the 100th of the series “Developing political culture through public debates”, organized by IPN Agency and Radio Moldova.
The standing expert of IPN’s project Igor Boțan said the political culture is actually a collective mental construct and an expression of the historical and sociopolitical experience. Three are three types of politics culture. The first type is the parochial political culture that is based on tradition as it is believed that traditions are from God and are not created by the people. That’s why the parochial political culture persists in villages. The second type is the political culture of those who obey an administration and this is typical for particular societies, such as the Republic of Moldova, which went through a Communist, Socialist phase, when there was the “beloved leader” and the people thanked him for all the accomplishments. The third type is the participatory political culture that is typical of the urban areas and is based on good laws.
Igor Boțan noted the political parties have experts who know very well how things stand in this regard and profit from the situation. For example, the Party of Socialists maximally explores the relationship with the church, tradition, family, etc. And this is tribute paid to the parochial political culture. The political culture of the submissive people is manifested by the declaring of the leader of the Democratic Party as the coordinator of the government in the Republic of Moldova, who, even if he does not have an official post, assumed this role: “All the initiatives come from the leader of the PDM and this is tribute paid to this kind of political culture.” The Shor Party is also a branch of the political culture of submissive people. This party opens kolkhozes and the experts who work for this party explore this type of culture. The third, participatory type of political culture manifests through the protest resistance movement that wants to change the laws as they are made by people and do not have the sacred element, as the traditions do.
Specifying that this the 70th and last commentary of a series produced in the framework of a project financed by the U.S. Embassy in Moldova, the IPN Experts noted that 2018 was the year of combating of foreign propaganda. This is gladdening, but only up to the moment when we realize that the effects of the struggle against foreign propaganda are actually not the expected ones. First of all, it became known that the legislation of the Republic of Moldova is not applied uniformly on the territory controlled by the constitutional authorities, which is except Transnistria. This way, the foreign propaganda in Găgăuz Yeri feels at home. Moreover, from the very beginning the regional authorities warned the central ones that they do not intend to implement the national legal norms that hamper foreign propaganda’s access to Moldova’s media sphere. This is a problem, ascertained the experts.
Secondly, without special efforts, the strait of the foreign propaganda substantially extended the space for internal propaganda.
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