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2009: Communists in Moldova could get over 50% of parliament seats

September 23, 2008
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According to a recent opinion poll, if elections were held next Sunday, only three parties in the former Soviet republic of Moldova would get into a new parliament. Thus, the Party of Moldova's Communists would get 20% of the vote, the Our Moldova Alliance Party (AMN) – 8.5%, while the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) – 7.1 %.

But after the redistribution of votes casted for parties that would not pass the threshold of 6%, the Communists would get 56%, AMN 24% and PLDM – 20%.

The three "winning" parties are followed by the Liberal Party, the Democratic Party of Moldova, the Social Democratic Party and other parties with fewer votes.

 Party of Communists  20%
 Our Moldova Alliance Party  8,5%
 Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova  7,1%
 Liberal Party  4,3%
 Democratic Party  3,7%
 Social Democratic Party  3,2%
 Christian Democratic People’s Party  2.7%
 Republican Social-Political Movement “Ravnopravie”  1.2%
 National Liberal Party of Moldova  1.1%
 European Action Movement Party  1%
 Republican People’s Party  0.3%
The opinion poll called “Vox-Populi 2008” was conducted by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova. It was carried out between September 5th and 16th of 2008. It covered a sample of 1,586 respondents from 12 geographical areas of Moldova. The margin of sampling error is 2.6%.

According to the Moldovan constitution, the Republic of Moldova is a parliamentary republic, where the parliament elects president and approves the candidature of prime minister along with the members of the new cabinet and its program.

In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the Party of Communists got 56 seats from the total of 101 seats, Moldova Democratica Bloc (Democratic Party, Our Moldova Alliance, Social Liberal Party and Braghis Alliance) - 34 seats, and the Christian Democratic Popular Party - 11 seats.

Since 2001, the Party of Communists holds all three power branches in Moldova - parliament, presidency and government - after communists managed to get 71 seats in the Moldovan Parliament. Vladimir Voronin, the Secretary General of the party, was elected in 2001 the country's president and re-elected in 2005 with the support of the Christian Democratic People’s Party, one time communists' main adversaries. The country’s constitution does not allow a third mandate for the president.

The U.S. State Department report on the State of Democracy in Moldova for 2008 states that in this country there are cases of judicial and police corruption, arbitrary detention by police, and occasional illegal searches. Especially on the eve of parliamentary and local elections, the government attempts to influence the media and intimidate journalists and maintains some restrictions on freedom of assembly.

The next parliamentary elections are scheduled for the spring of 2009.

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