Who will represent the bloc ACUM, PDM, PSRM, Shor in Parliament.
The chairwoman of the National Liberal Party Vitalia Pavlichenko said the participation conditions in the recent elections were discouraging for the extraparliamentary parties. According to her, the results of the elections reflect the disappointment witnessed after 2009. Executive director of the Women’s Political Club 50/50 Ecaterina Mardarovici said the political spectrum of the voters in Moldova hasn’t changed for 20 years. The parties of the left continue to hold 40-44 seats, while the democratic parties – over 50 seats. The voters haven’t evolved since the declaration of independence. “In a country where the population can vote for a party and a person convicted by an ordinary court, who admitted to breaking the law and giving bribe, society relapses if the people give seven seats of MP to such a party,” stated Ecaterina Mardarovici.
The renouncing of Europeanization means perpetuation of the oligarchic danger, considers political pundit Anatol Țăranu. He made such a statement following the appearance of eventual scenarios of partial coalitions between the bloc ACUM DA PAS with the Party of Socialists in particular areas in the future Parliament. Journalist Vlad Darie said the fight against corruption is not a campaign, but a well-balanced state policy that resides in the building of absolutely independent institutions whose duty is to fight corruption. “We have to strengthen and build these institutions so as to separate the powers and really have efficiency. I see the struggle against corruption as a part of the process of modernizing the Republic of Moldova. It cannot exist as a program itself,” stated Vlad Darie.
If last Sunday’s legislative elections had been free and fair, the situation in the future Parliament would have been different, said the co-president of the electoral bloc ACUM DA PAS Maia Sandu. She noted the people were forced to take decisions about the vote based on false reports or on electoral alms. “We come with laws that will free the state institutions from captivity. These laws are for the people. If there are other people with at least slight responsibility in Parliament, these laws will be passed. If not, this is life,” stated the politician.
MP Lilian Carp, a candidate of the bloc ACUM considers the Democratic Party did its best for no one to want to communicate with them. “Plahotniuc does not need time to form this majority and we need time to first of all show that these elections were rigged. And they had been rigged from the day the registration of candidates started until the polling stations were closed. The recent elections were anything, but not elections,” noted the MP.
According to Doru Petrutsi, Imas director, all the other polls overestimated the PSRM’s rating and underestimated the ratings of the PDM and the Shor Party. “This way, the poll conducted by Imas showed the Party of Socialists would gain 33.7% of the vote. The party scored 32.4% on Moldova’s territory. In the case of the Democratic Party, the company estimated this would score 25.2%, while its result at the national level was 24.7%. 21.8% was anticipated for the bloc ACUM and the bloc won 24.3% of the ballot on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. The Imas poll was also the only one that forecast the Shor Party would pass the election threshold, presenting last week 7.5% for the Shor Party and estimating the net voting intentions together with the undecided ones at 9.7%. The Shor Party on Moldova’s territory scored 8.7%,” noted Doru Petrutsi.
The mass media in Moldova continue to be politically controlled and the people in the election campaign were presented only particular views so that not everyone had equal and balanced access to information. Even so, media experts consider there are yet independent media outlets that work impartially and in a balanced way, including in the election campaign, says the fifth and last report on media monitoring in the election campaign prior to the February 24 parliamentary elections. This was compiled by the Association of Independent Press and the Independent Journalism Center within the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections and covers the period between February 17 and 24.
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