Transnistrian authorities blocked access to polling stations (I)
On Sunday early morning, the Transnistrian law enforcement blockaded the Corjova village polling station, Central Election Commission Secretary Iurie Ciocan stated to your Infotag correspondent.
In his words, in addition to the Transnistrian militiamen, about 4 hundred local residents gathered near the station this morning, saying they are strongly against the referendum.
Ciocan said that the Corjova authorities failed to de-block the station, so willing voters could not get into the building to vote, and that this situation has been repeating for many years now - at every Moldovan election. To avoid situation aggravation, the CEC permitted Corjova residents to go and vote in the nearby Moldovan villages of Ustia and Cocieri.
The CEC Secretary says problems exist also in the villages of Parcani and Varnitsa - both disputed between Chisinau and Tiraspol ever since 1992.
"On the whole, we have opened 11 polling stations on the eastern Dniester bank - in enclaves that have been under the Moldovan authority. In most of them, the voting is going on without problem. Besides, the residents of Transnistria are welcome at a specially assigned polling station in Chisinau", said the Commission Secretary.
Corjova has been a place of chronic conflicts each time the Republic of Moldova holds elections. Chisinau regards the village as a part of Moldovan territory, and tries to organize voting there like everywhere. But the Transnistrian administration regards Corjova is not a village, but a sector of the Transnistrian town of Dubossary, so "why should a foreign country hold its elections in our town?" As a result, not a single election has been held in Corjova last 15 years, even local ones.
Due to an irony of fate, Corjova is the native place of Moldova's ex-president Vladimir Voronin, whom Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov regards as his mortal enemy. Consequently, the Transnistrian security have many a time prevented Voronin from visiting his native village, even in 2005, when Voronin's mother passed away, and when he was not let to come and bury her.
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