In Moldova, the legitimacy of the power continues to be questioned, considers the director of the consulting agency Intellect Group Ian Lisnevschi. “The voter turnout in our country is usually of 35-40% and 20% of the voters choose the power. Consequently, the power cannot enjoy the people’s support and trust in the power declines,” Ian Lisnevschi stated in IPN’s public debate “Election rigging: how it is done, how to fight it”

“Currently, the level of confidence in parties stands at only 3.2%, but the politicians as always try to impose their opinion on the voters with the assistance of primitive technology. As a result, for 30 years we have chosen between two evils,” said Ian Lisnevschi. “What is going on is more serious than vote rigging. When you choose between two products with the expired shelf life, you anyway get a product that is unsafe to eat.”

The expert noted the interest in the current campaign prior to the presidential elections is rather low. “50% of voters are ready to vote, but this is not definite. Their decision whether to go to vote or not is influenced by the election campaign, its quality and intensity and the debates of candidates. But our politics is primitive and the politicians only accuse each other and justify themselves. The candidates don’t think about the future,” concluded Ian Lisnevschi.

The public debate “Election rigging: how it is done, how to fight it” was held as part of the mini-series “We and the President: who elects who, who represents who?” that is part of the project “Developing political culture through public debate” that is implemented by IPN with support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation.