Speaker Andrian Candu thinks that after the 2016 legislative election no one will be able to speculate about the representativeness and legitimacy of the legislative. In an interview with IPN, anticipating Moldova’s 26th Independence Day, the speaker said the electoral change will allow new people to enter politics.
“Even though it’s a mixed system, the monopoly of party leaders has been broken. I think we have offered an extra opportunity for a fundamental right to be exercised: the right to be elected.
“Moreover, voters will have more options to elect a person and a party that truly represent them. I and the Democratic Party believe in people and in their ability to make the right choice”, said Andrian Candu.
Speaker Candu, who is also vice president of the Democratic Party, further defended the decision to adopt the mixed voting system by making an argument that it righted a historic wrong: “When some politicians exaggerate and play absurd games, I can understand their personal motivation, but I will not give them the satisfaction of joining their petty games. If I did it, I would fall into the trap of our political opponents who falsely speculate that the political system has been changed through amending the Election Code. When in fact, the Declaration of Independence itself, the law that gave us everything from the name of the Republic of Moldova, to the state symbols, to the foundations of democracy and the multi-party system, was adopted by a parliament that had been elected in uninominal circumscriptions. Let me remind you that the proportional electoral system was a temporary measure chosen in an exceptional situation, but which turned into a permanent one due to political games.”
“Despite the political nearsightedness of some, Moldova remains to be a democratic state, and we the citizens remain to be free people, free to administrate our country and destiny according to our own choices and aspirations”, stated Speaker Andrian Candu in an interview with IPN.
