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Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) candidate for Chisinau municipality general mayor Serafim Urechean has joined the electoral campaign together with the PLDM team for Chisinau Municipality Council. The event organized in the square in front of the Nativity Cathedral in Chisinau was attended by the party’s leader Vlad Filat. He said that Serafim Urechean had successfully faced all the battles in the past years and he cannot be accused of collaboration with communists. “Chisinau municipality, the country’s capital, doesn’t need verbal battles, it doesn’t need endless declarations. Chisinau municipality needs decisions, actions, and people capable to act,” Vlad Filat said.

At the same time, candidate Serafim Urechean said that the capital’s mayor should be elected in the first round and start working beginning on 15 June. He said that he intends to eliminate chaos from the city and to solve a number of social problems, such as the lack of places for children in kindergartens, destruction of green areas, unauthorized parking lots, etc. // IPN

22 electoral actors used administrative resources and nine others offered electoral gifts for promotion — these are the gravest violations found by Promo-LEX Association, which presented the second report of the General Local Elections of 14 June 2015 Observation Mission. The violations found by Promo-LEX also include the ones related to the funding of political parties. Only five electoral contestants out of nine who submitted reports to the Central Electoral Commission indicated their incomes and expenses. At the same time, only four citizens made financial contributions amounting to 950 thousand lei for the parties’ campaign funds.

The repot covers the electoral processes in Moldova in the period of 30 April — 20 May 2015. // realitatea.md

Businessman Ilan Shor has been officially registered as candidate for Orhei mayor from the “Ravnopravie (Equality)” Socio-Political Movement. According to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) chairman, the law is one for all, and as long as there is no final decision condemning Shor, he can run for the office and was registered. “The Orhei District Electoral Council made this decision after receiving replies from law officials. Moreover, we presented to them the data that we had received from the Ministry of Justice regarding the list of condemned persons who have no right to be candidates in elections. Ilan Shor’s name was clearly not on the list,” Iurie Ciocan said.

11 persons are running for mayor of Orhei, all designated by political organizations; those 11 organizations also submitted lists of candidates for Orhei city council, while three persons are running for membership in the council independently. // realitatea.md