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The Moldovan Federation of Student and Youth Organisations (FOSTM) held a news conference and protested “against a new manifestation of the tendency to eliminate students from the voting process, registered at scrutinies the past two years.” FOSTM fears that “CEC has found a new way to eliminate the students from the voting process this year,” by scheduling the local elections for July 10, when most of students are not in the city. “Starting July 1, most of student hostels close up, so that students have to leave Chisinau.” FOSTM estimates that about 100,000 students study in Chisinau, and 43,000 of them are accommodated in hostels. FOSTM added that it does not support any candidate to the Chisinau mayor post.

The independent candidate to the Chisinau mayor post, Iuliana Gorea-Costin, told a news conference that: a) the electoral campaign for the July 10 local elections takes place with grave breaches of electoral legislation; b) the government commits abusive actions in order to promote the PCRM candidate to the Chisinau mayor post, Zinaida Greceanii; c) Speaker Marian Lupu advertises the PCRM candidate. Lupu invited students of the Moldovan Technical University and employees of the Emergency Hospital to elect the candidate of PCRM. The medical staff described the convocation of the Emergency Hospital doctors as a “cheeky behaviour”; d) the State Guard Service participates in placement of electoral advertising while the news agency Moldpres is promoting the image of Zinaida Greceanii. The TV channel NIT maintains the same pro-communist stances." In the context, Mrs. Iuliana Gorea-Costin added that “the pro-European declarations of state authorities represent a decor for the communist machinery.”

Also, Iuliana Giorea-Costin made public a declaration on significance of June 28 (1994). She invited the Chisinau authorities “to declare June 28 (1940), when the USSR occupied Bessarabia, and July 6 (1949), a symbolic day for the three waves of deportations of Romanian farmers and intellectuals from Bessarabia to Siberia (1940, 1946, 1949), as National Mourning Days; to start drafting a legislative framework needed for moral and material compensation of all victims of the Soviet communist-totalitarian regime and their successors; to support the building of a monument to the remembrance of victims of Stalinist reprisals in front of the Chisinau station, in order to make historic and Christian justice to our martyrs and their successors; to respect the historic-scientific truth and not to falsify the final data of the population census held last autumn.”

The Central Election Commission sought the assistance of the Interior Ministry, Ministry of Transportation and Road Management, Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure, Ministry of Information Development, and the domestic security service SIS to ensure a normal conduct of the July 10 early local elections in 14 settlements of Moldova.