The electoral bloc ACUM DA PAS pledges to clean up justice and to confiscate the property of those who are corrupt, to revitalize the economy and to increase the people’s incomes, to invest in education that is the main driving force of modernization and change. “We will restore the relations with the European partners and will fulfil all the conditions for applying to become a member of the European Union so that we all find ourselves in the family of civilized nations,” runs the bloc’s Proclamation.
“The Shor Party, not by words, but by deeds, implements the socialist agenda – compensation of tariffs, free transport, opening of kolkhozes. We plead for creating state-owned enterprises and factories,” noted Ilan Shor. The politician said the Shor Party adopted an approach that is appreciated by the people. “Today the Shor Party works with people in localities, solves the people’s problems, helps and does what it should do,” stated Ilan Shor. He pledged to deliver his promises, noting that owing to the people’s solid support, the party is more motivated to go on.
The Party of Socialists will compete in the parliamentary elections in order to do away with the chaos and wrongdoings of the co-called pro-European governments and to initiate changes for the people’s and the country’s benefit, the party’s president Zinaida Grecheanyi stated in a meeting in Briceni, where she runs in single-member constancy No. 1 In Chisinau, the PSRM’s secretary for ideology Ion Ceban said over 15,000 agitators will have meetings with voters all over the country so that the PSRM emerges victories in the elections of February 24.
The Democratic Party of Moldova kicked off its election campaign with the slogan “Deeds, not words!”. The party’s president Vlad Plahotniuc called on all the candidates involved in the electoral race, no matter what parties they represent, to refrain from fakes, provocations and manipulations, to show respect for all the electoral contenders and to allow the voters to decide freely. He said that during three years of work they managed to do more than all the previous governments together.
“Elections in plain words” from IPN: The Code of Conduct is a convention concluded between electoral contenders and representatives of media outlets that regulates the norms of conduct of electoral competitors, participants in the referendum and representative of the media involved in the conduct and covering of the election campaign. The main objectives of the Code of Conduct are to hold a correct election campaign in equal competition conditions, to objectively inform the voters about the electoral processes, free political participation in the election campaign, respect for the dignity of participants in the election campaign, creation of a climate of confidence and mutual respect between the signatories in the election campaign.
According to political commentator Ion Tăbârță, earlier there were always about four parties that managed to enter Parliament. These were parties with electoral chances, but there were more parties willing to reach the legislature. Now the number of those ready to become involved declined as the electoral chances of political parties halved. Under the previous electoral system, for example, a party scored 6%, which is the electoral threshold. Based on these 6%, plus the redistribution of the percentage of parties that didn’t pass the threshold, the given parties obtained 8-9 seats of MP. Now these 6% bring three or at most four MPs. This way the number of MPs representing parties can halve.
By January 25, the district electoral councils of single-member constituencies registered 246 electoral competitors, 25 of whom are independents. A number of 107 files are being examined and the decisions as to the registration of the candidates will be taken within seven days of the submission day. The time limit for filing applications to have the candidates registered as electoral competitors in the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019 was January 24. Fifteen parties submitted application to run in the national constituency and nine of these were already registered.
The Moldovan authorities should adopt a more active and categorical attitude in its demands to the Russian Federation to implemented the judgments passed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concerning the rights of the citizens from the Transnistrian region, said the lawyer of Promo-LEX Association Nicoleta Hriplivyi. In a news conference at IPN, the lawyer said Moldova’s obligations do not end when the ECHR passes judgements saying that it is not to blame. The Republic of Moldova is responsible for the implementation of the decisions as it is responsible for the given territory according to the international law given that the Transnistrian region forms part of the Republic of Moldova.
In 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recorded 814 applications against the Republic of Moldova, by 7.4% more compared with 2017, when there were logged 758 applications. The Republic of Moldova is ranked 11th out of 47 states by the number of applications examined by the ECHR and fifth by the number of people who go to the ECHR. The figures were presented by the Legal Resources Center at press conference at IPN.
The bank performance rankings last yearend were headed by the banks of systemic importance for the national banking and financial systems BC Moldova-Agroindbank, BC Moldindconbank and BC Mobiasbancă. These excelled mainly in terms of profitability and market indicators and accounted for about 81% of the profit made at sector level and for 62% of the bank assets. The rankings were compiled by experts of the independent think tank “Expert-Grup.
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