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The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) notifies students that they have three days left to declare their new place of residence. Students who have a temporary residence registration in hostels are recalled that, in compliance with the Election Code, they must cast their ballots at the polling stations accordingly to the address of the hostel concerned. In order to vote at another polling station, inclusively in the area of their permanent residence, the students shall apply before June 26, 2009 including to the Local Public Administration from the locality where they want to vote. The applicant shall submit the declaration by presenting the identity card, the annex to this document and copies. Once they apply, the students will be included in the basic electoral list of the polling station where they will cast their ballots. The students will vote in the area of their permanent residence, shall the temporary residence registration expire before the early parliamentary elections. The applications submitted previously for the April 5, 2009 parliamentary elections are invalid, as this is a one-use document. ( CEC communiqué)

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Centrist Union of Moldova (UCM) may go with a single list in snap elections set for July 29. The leaders of those two parties said that this decision will be soon made public. So far, they are still negotiating. PSD leader Dumitru Braghis has told the media that on June 23 the two parties discussed about going together in the elections. “We have not made a decision yet. We’ll see. We conduct talks with Moldova Unita Party, too,” said Dumitru Braghis. At a press conference, Mihai Petrache, the UCM’s deputy president, said he had talks with the PSD and the PDM “until the Lupu factor emerged”. Petrache said the UCM would go alone in elections, but confirmed the negotiations between UCM and PSD. “Tomorrow we’ll announce a result, I suppose.” Petrache said his party did not have talks with the Moldova Unita Party. (Info-Prim Neo)

The July 29 early parliamentary elections will be the nation’s “choice between extremists and state-minded forces, between street arbitrariness and the law, between losing the country and its independence”, reads the Electoral Declaration issued by the ruling Party of Communists. The Communists believe that last April 5 they had won “a convincing victory in an honest, democratic competition”. The PCRM presumes the opposition needs not the state power as such but a further destabilization of the socio-economic situation and annihilation of the Moldovan statehood. The Communists have also stated that “now the marionette parties lead from outside attacks PCRM, but our Motherland”. (Infotag)

The Conservative Party (PC) will not run in the snap elections and calls on citizens to boycott the July 29 elections, in order to have repeated elections with a higher turnout. PC leader Natalia Nirca explains the gesture by her wish to cut back suspicions of the alleged pro-Communist orientation of her party. Most probably, the repeated election may take place in the second half of August, a more convenient period for the democratic opposition, because the Moldovans working in European countries will return for vacations and will be able to vote, Natalia Nirca specified. Earlier the PC called on all the opposition parties to go with a single list in elections. (Info-Prim Neo)

On June 23, the PACE Monitoring Committee held an exchange of views on the situation in Moldova and made public the Information Note on follow-up to Resolution 1666 (2009) prepared by the Committee’s co-rapporteurs, Josette Durrieu (France) and Egidijus Vareikis (Lithuania), on the basis of their visit to Chisinau on June 10, 2009. In this Note, the rapporteurs called on the Moldovan authorities to apply scrupulously the new provisions of the Election Code. They also recommended that the Assembly Bureau appoint a strong delegation to observe the elections in Moldova on July 29, 2009. Lastly, the co-rapporteurs ascertained numerous violations during the April 5 elections expressed their desire to see the election campaign take place under the best possible conditions, in accordance with European standards, particularly with regard to access to the media. The members of the previous Moldovan delegation to the Assembly and the representatives of the opposition parties in the dissolved Parliament (Liberal Party, Liberal Democratic Party and “Moldova Nostra” Alliance) were invited to take part in this exchange of views.

The Resolution 1666 (2009) said, in particular, that the April 5 parliamentary elections in Moldova were an essential test for Moldova’s democracy and should have enabled the country to strengthen democratic institutions and make progress towards European integration. In the view of the Parliamentary Assembly’s ad hoc committee which observed the elections, they met many international standards and commitments but further improvements were required to ensure an electoral process free of undue administrative interference and to increase public confidence. Furthermore, the observers noted that the electoral process was marked by a number of significant procedural shortcomings and that significant improvements in the electoral process were required. The state broadcaster blurred the distinction between the coverage of duties of state officials and their campaign activities. The observers wrote that although the campaign environment was pluralist, peaceful and without any major violent incidents, it was marked by frequent allegations of intimidation of voters and candidates, as well as by claims of misuse of administrative resources. The Parliamentary Assembly regrets that some of the problems are identical to those detected in previous elections in Moldova and, most recently, during the local elections in 2007. The Parliamentary Assembly deplored the fact that the peaceful protests which began on April 6, mainly at the initiative of young people who did not accept the results of the elections, degenerated on April 7 into a violent attack on and destruction of the buildings of Parliament and Presidency. The Assembly is strongly concerned about acts of violence that were committed by the police during the post-electoral events. According to the information available, more than 300 people were arrested and 9 are still being held in detention. (Infotag)

At the July 29 early parliamentary elections, the Christian Democratic People’s Party will be putting its stake on the youth. Party leader Iurie Rosca told a press conference that the first 7 positions in the PPCD list have been given to young people. As for the party’s founder fathers, “we have decided to not run for parliament this time”. We shall be always by their side during the campaign, but only with our advice. We the old folks are not running. Rosca said the Christian Democrats call the young people “the splendid seven”. Five of them are lawyers, one is an economist, and one is an engineer. All have received higher education both at home and abroad, “but they were born and raised on the Moldovan soil”. He explained the PPCD had thus decided to prepare a “change of generations in the Moldovan politics”. In his words, the ’youth promotion idea’ was backed by all PPCD territorial organizations. Ghenadie Vaculovschi, no.1 on the PPCD list, said that he and his party comrades have come to politics “not to become somebody but to do something”. He said the young generation of the Moldovan Christian Democrats had many years learnt from the current PPCD leaders, and now will start using this knowledge in practical political work — “but only as regard good deeds done by party veterans”. (Infotag)

Public servants included on the PCRM electoral list for the July 29 early elections will not appear on the news broadcasts by the the public audiovisual. “But we are open for the press conferences that will be reflected in the news broadcasts similarly to the activity of other electoral contestants”, declared the PCRM leader, Vladimir Voronin, at a press conference. He has also stated that the PCRM reperesentatives will participate in all electoral debates organised by different media isntitutions (Infotag)

The Moldovan opposition is not independent, being directed from shadow by some criminal forces which influence it, PCRM leader Vladimir Voronin told a press conference on Wednesday. According to Voronin, 28 out of the 41 members to the 17th Legislature have criminal cases on their names or have problems with law enforcement bodies. The fact that all the initiatives raised by the PCRM to remedy the political crisis were turned down without any explanations and arguments is a confirmation in this respect. Speaking about the failed elections, President Voronin stressed that “9 lawmakers representing the opposition factions wanted to vote, but they were not allowed to do so,” while some have even evacuated their families from country because they were afraid of assaults by criminals forces which direct the activity of the opposition parties. (Source: Moldpres)

Former speaker Marian Lupu refutes Vladimir Voronin’s statements that he has withdrawn from the PCRM because he was angry that he was not nominated the PCRM candidate to the seat of chief of state. According to an interview published by the Balti-based Russian-langue weekly “SP” on Wednesday, Marian Lupu says that “to be elected president of Moldova by an illegitimate parliament would have not be an honour for me”. Asked if the Democratic Party of Moldova, which the former speaker has joined, will eventually make a coalition with the communists in the next Parliament regarding certain issues, inclusively the election of a chief of state, Lupu assured that it would choose democratic and pro-European parties. (Source: Deca-Press)

“We will win the early parliamentary elections even if we will walk more than drive during the electoral campaign,” Mihai Ghimpu, leader of the Liberal Party, told a press conference on Wednesday. He noted that residents of Moldova reacted to the PL call for donations for party’s activity. “People come to us every day and give us from their little,” Ghimpu stated. He added that PL will provide more evidence that the April 5 elections were falsified. (Source: Deca-press)