The Constitutional Court will not have a very difficult task when it will have to pronounce on the results of the presidential elections, stated ex-judge and ex-president of the Constitutional Court of Moldova Victor Puscas, quoted by IPN.
Commenting in the talk show “Moldova live” on the public TV channel Moldova 1 on the complaints about the legality of the elections, Puscas said these all were submitted too late, in breach of the Election Code. Therefore, the Court may not satisfy the complainers.
According to Puscas, the Election Code obliges the election runners to challenge in court the violations identified while monitoring the voting process and only the final documents issued by the Central Election Commission can be disputed after the elections, if a particular type of violations are ascertained, such as errors in the vote count.
“To nullify the elections, the Court must establish violations in the voting process or vote count that influence the election outcome. For now, none of the signaled violations were confirmed in court,” stated Victor Puscas.
One of the challengers in the presidential runoff Maia Sandu, who was outstripped by Igor Dodon according to the results confirmed by the CEC, after the elections filed a complaint to the Appeals Court, where she enumerates nine types of violations that affected the election results, including obstruction of the right to vote of Moldovans from the diaspora, violation of free suffrage by the organization of illegal transportation of voters from Transnistria, involvement of the church in the election campaign and printing and dissemination of denigrating leaflets.
In parallel, a number of Moldovans from the diaspora, who were unable to vote at polling places overseas because these run out of ballots, also submitted complaints to court, accusing the state institutions of violating their constitutional right to vote.
