Only motor vehicles with a capacity of at most eight seats and vehicles transporting passengers by regular routes will be allowed to move on the country’s territory on the day of the presidential elections of November 1, between 7am and 9pm, as the Central Election Commission decided following a proposal formulated by Olesea Stamate, the representative with the right of consultative vote at the CEC of the PAS’s candidate for President Maia Sandu, IPN reports.
The measure is aimed at avoiding the organized transportation of voters to polling stations by electoral contenders or third parties on the election day.
The organization by electoral contenders or representatives of these of the transportation of voters to polling stations on the election day, between 7am and 9pm, is banned, as is the transportation of voters to polling stations by buses or taxicabs, by agreement with third parties, others than the traveler/voter, except for cases when the voters have disabilities.
Under the Penal Code, the corrupting of voters for obtaining their vote in favor of the electoral contender or the offering of money, goods, services or other benefits is punished with a fine of 27,500 lei to 42,500 lei or one to five years in jail in the case of private individuals and with a fine of 200,000 to 300,000 lei and ban on performing a particular activity or with liquidation in the case of legal entities.
