ADEPT proposes to parliament to discuss 5 draft bills on changing the Electoral Code

The Association of Participative democracy ADEPT will propose to the parliament for discussion and approval 5 draft bills on changing and fulfilling the Electoral Code. The executive manage of ADEPT, Igor Botan, reported on Thursday, 9 March, at a round table on the topic „Improving national legislation”, that amendments to Electoral Code were drafted within a project assisted by Foundation „Eurasia”. The project „Improving Electoral Code – Appropriate legislative framework for free and correct elections” has as goal to implement the recommendations of OSCE, Council of Europe, Commission of Venetia and of the national and international observers and adjustment of the legal framework of Moldova to international documents that the country has joined. According to him, it is proposed the draft bill on implementing the elector’s card in order to improve the record and documentation of electors, to exclude current methods of stamping of the identity cards, procedure leading to dissatisfactions and critics; the draft bill on implementing the voting via post to citizens being abroad. In the same time there are proposed bills regarding the implementation of the mixed electoral system: a national circumscription and uninominal circumscriptions, as well as implementation of the limited proportional electoral system: more multinominal circumscriptions. Another bill refers to implementation of the recommendations of the international institutions, where are proposed solutions to ensure the right to elect and to be elected, improving the creation procedures of the electoral bodies and strengthening their status, to make electoral campaigns during the lections and referendums. In the same time, ADEPT proposes new measures of submitting the candidates of electoral competitors, improving the recording of persons included in the electoral lists, organising voting, eliminating the administrative influence, improving judicial procedures, counting the results of voting and access of observers to all electoral procedures. The chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, Eugeniu Stirbu, mentioned that support the draft bills, as their drafting was done with the support of CEC. He considers that these bills will lead to improving the electoral legislation in force and of certain practices for preparing and organising elections.