Moldovan parliament to improve electoral legislation
On Thursday night, the Moldovan Parliament formed an ad hoc commission called to improve and optimize the existing electoral legislation, despite vociferous objections offered by the opposition Communist faction, who claimed there was no need for changing anything.
Presenting the draft of parliamentary Resolution on forming the commission, MP Vitalie Nagacevschi (LDP) stated the incumbent slack electoral legislation led to numerous violations of citizens' rights during the 2009 elections. He named concrete examples of such violations, of which the gravest one was the deprivation of hundreds of thousand Moldovan gastarbeiters abroad of their constitutional right to vote.
However, one of the Communist Party's heavyweights, Vadim Mishin, stated, "With such a sneering attitude to the electoral process, we shall not take part in the commission's work", on which Parliament Speaker Mihai Ghimpu retorted instantly, "Oh yes, as soon as it comes to providing proper conditions for a correct and free election, the Communists withdraw from the project".
Still the forum decided that the commission of 11 shall include 6 parliamentarians from the ruling Alliance for European Integration and 5 from the opposition. The Communist faction refused to delegate its representatives to the commission.
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