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The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) approved the decision establishing the date and time of receiving the necessary documents for registration of candidates for the April 5, 2009 parliamentary elections. According to the decision and to the Election Code provisions, the documents for registering candidates for the 2009 parliamentary elections can be received starting February 5, between 10.00 AM and 16.00 PM at the following address: Chişinău, V. Alecsandri Street, n. 119, office 307. From February 6 until March 6, the documents are received on working days, between 9.00 AM and 16 PM.

Marian Lupu, Chairman of the Parliament, one of the tough electoral pieces of the Communists Party, stated during a meeting with a group of German deputies that “the results of the April 5 2009 parliamentary elections will not modify the internal and foreign European integration politics priorities of the Republic of Moldova”.

The Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) denied the fact that President Vladimir Voronin would have revealed the name of PCRM’s candidate for Moldova’s next president. According to Russian mass-media, the candidate was Vladimir Ţurcanu, Moldova’s ex-ambassador to Russian Federation, currently Chairman of the Legal Parliamentary Commission for Appointments and Immunities. The PCRM sources stated that “this information does not correspond to the reality. Moldova is a parliamentary republic, where the state president is elected by the Parliament. Therefore, naming a candidate and discussing this candidacy is unreasonable. The Party of Communists will discuss this matter only after winning the April 5 parliamentary elections”. On the other hand, previously, during a TV program, Vladimir Voronin has stated: “Of course, I notice potential candidates and I think about it. More that this, I prepare this person. But, so far, even he doesn’t know anything. And I wouldn’t say his name for nothing in the whole world. Knowing the behavior of our politicians, if I say his name, this person’s reputation will be stained. It could also go the other way around, they will start praising and corrupting him before the elections. We can not allow these things to happen. Everything at its own time… at the beginning, it is important to win the elections in order to have the possibility to form the new government and to choose the president” (source: INFOTAG news).

The leader of the Popular Republican Party (PPR), Nicolae Andronic, attacked the law Court’s decision that convicted him last week for five years of freedom deprivation with a period of suspension. Andronic stated for mass-media that “the Court only read the resolutive part of the judgment and I don’t even know what I was convited for. I only attacked the basic decision of the Court of Appeal; I will come back with further details and evidence.” According to Andronic, he was sued because of political reasons, “for constant publicly criticizing president Vladimir Voronin and the current government… Other evidence that this file is a political one is the way how the government controlled mass-media institutions reacted to Court’s decision. Day-by-day, they published news about the conviction, referring to accusations that don’t exist in the Court decision. They advance thesis that I am not aware of, and this already means much”. Andronic is of opinion that the government’s goal is to slander him and the party he chairs and to impede him from participating in this year’s elections. (source: INFOTAG news)

The meeting of the CC PCRM Political Executive Committee and the fifth Plenary session of the Central Committee of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova took place. The plenary session discussed the following issues: 1. Regarding the PCRM electoral Program; 2. Regarding the candidates list for the position of deputy of the RM Parliament; 3. Regarding the confirmation of PCRM’s representative at CEC. Relating to the discussed issues, the Plenary session approved the corresponding decisions.