Head of state promulgates law amending Electoral Code
President Vladimir Voronin on May 14 promulgated the law that amends the Electoral Code. The amendments ban the political parties from forming electoral blocks and increase the electoral ceiling from 4% to 6%.
According to the presidential press service, the amendments also stipulate conditions of participation in elections for the persons with criminal records and specify the categories of people that should suspend their activity when running for an elective post. Additional conditions are provided for the candidates for member of the Central Election Commission.
The amendments also stipulate new conditions for making electoral publicity, stricter supervising the ballot papers by numbering them and for more efficiently regulating the suspension of voting. They also concretize the conditions in which rerun elections are held and how the ballot papers for the second round of voting should be prepared. Electoral Code
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