The Moldovan authorities will not amend the electoral legislation based on the recommendations formulated by the Constitutional Court in December 2016 because this is convenient for some of the politicians, Vadim Pistrinciuc, executive director of the Institute for Strategic Policies and Initiatives, stated in a public debate entitled “Why wasn’t the Constitutional Court heard in the problem of presidential elections?”, which was staged by IPN News Agency.
“Why don’t the state institutions propose changes to the legislation? Why don’t the state institutions take measures to amend the legislation so as to bring the stealing of votes to an end? Because this is suitable to someone and this is the first thing we should understand,” noted Vadim Pistrinciuc.
The expert noted that every time discussions on the amendment of the electoral system were held in Parliament, there were persons who were categorically against. “The political factor is increasingly dominated by interests to rig the elections. Until now, there were scattered attempts, but in the last parliamentary elections we witnessed more systemic attempts to influence the elections. There are reports saying that the vote in Transnistria wasn’t fully correct and there were multiple cases of vote buying. There were signals. but there is no reaction. Why? Because particular election contenders pursue the goal of broadly using these mechanisms in the next elections,” he stated.
Vadim Pistrinciuc also said that if multiple frauds are witnessed at the upcoming presidential elections, Moldova could find itself isolated internationally for a rather log period of time and this isolation will have consequence also for the development projects.
“We should clearly realize this as this is how the system works. Now that the European Union and all our neighbors are very concerned about the crisis experienced by Europe, we should be very attentive and should work for intense relations with the development partners and to obtain increased attention from them. If we look like a state that does not have electoral democracy and in which the elections are rigged, we will enter a gray area for a longer period,” concluded the former MP.
The debate “Why wasn’t the Constitutional Court heard in the problem of presidential elections?” was the 132nd installment of the series of debates “Developing political culture through public debates” that are supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
