Number of ballots for July 11 elections approved

25.06.2021 10:10
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As many as 3 521 642 ballots will be printed for the snap parliamentary elections of July 11. A number of 2 794 942 ballots will be intended for the 2,000 polling stations that will be established inside the country and 2 112 244 of them will be in Romanian. The others will be in Russian. The CEC approved the decision on the number of ballots in its June 25 meeting, IPN reports.

For the polling stations that will be set up outside the country, there will be printed 726 700 ballots, 662 600 of which will be in Romanian. These will be transmitted to the embassies and consular offices of the Republic of Moldova abroad so as to be later distributed to the electoral bureaus of polling stations outside the country.

CEC secretary Maxim Lebedinschi said that by 300 ballots will be distributed to the polling stations in Baku, Azerbaijan; Beijing, the People’s Republic of China; Tokyo, Jacana, and Qatar, while 500 ballots will go to the polling station in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. The other stations abroad and in the Transnistrian region, will get by 5,000 ballots each. In the polling stations inside the country, the number of ballots will match the number of voters put on the main rolls.

For the July 11 elections, the CEC registered 23 election contenders:

1. Building Europe at Home Party “PACE”;
2. Common Action Civic Congress Party;
3. Electoral Bloc “RENATO USATÎI”;
4. Shor Party;
5. Party of Action and Solidarity;
6. Electoral Bloc of the Communists and the Socialists;
7. Professional Movement “Speranţa – Nadejda”;
8. Democratic Party;
9. Party “Dignity and Truth Platform”;
10. National Unity Party;
11. Party “Democracy at Home”;
12. Political Party “NOI”;
13. Party of Development and Unity of Moldova;
14. Political Party “ALLIANCE FOR THE UNION OF ROMANIANS”;
15. Ecologist Green Party;
16. Party of Law and Justice;
17. People Power Party;
18. Party of Regions of Moldova;
19.“Moldova’s Patriots” Party;
20 PARTY OF CHANGE;
21. “NEW HISTORICAL OPTION” PARTY;
22. Working People’s Party;
23. Veaceslav Valico (independent).