29 July 2009
Fringe Moldovan party asks for recount in parliamentary polls
August 05, 2009The Christian Democratic Popular Party (CDPP) headed by Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Rosca has demanded a complete recount of ballots cast in the 29 July early parliamentary election. The election was called after MPs that made it to parliament on 5 April...
Dumitru Pulbere: Nobody can press on constitutional court judges
August 04, 2009Moldova's Constitutional Court Chairman Dumitru Pulbere is convinced nobody can put whatever pressure or influence on CC Judges while their considering the results of the July 29 parliamentary elections. He said in an interview with the Banking &...
J.T.Stewart: A Chance For Reconciliation And Progress In Moldova
August 03, 2009By John Todd Stewart The July 29 Moldovan elections have produced a parliament where no single party will have a majority, much less the 61-seat supermajority necessary to elect a new president. Agreements must now be negotiated to choose a president...
Moldova: Communists maintaining lead, but in minority in parliament
July 30, 2009The Moldovan Communist Party (MCP) won more votes than any other political force at the July 29 early parliamentary elections, but will all the same receive less than a half of mandates in the 101-member Parliament of Moldova, the Central Election Commission...
Updated results: Elections in Moldova on 29 July 2009
July 29, 2009On July 29, 2009, early parliamentary elections are held in the Republic of Moldova and 101 members of the Parliament are elected. Polling stations are opened from 7:00 to 21:00. 8 political parties are participating in elections. The threshold for representation...
Transnistrian separatists blockaded access to voters in Corjova
July 29, 2009Transnistrian authorities blockade polling station in president Voronin's native village The Transnistrian authorities have once again blockaded the polling station in the village of Corjova on the eastern Dniester bank, and did not permit organizing...
Situation Tense As Moldovans Vote
July 29, 2009By Gregory Feifer As a handful of people filed into a polling station in leafy central Chisinau on a sunny morning, the memory of April's riots hung over the voting. Many in this desperately poor city say they want a better life. Like many others...
Moldova election: 30% of voters voted by 12:45
July 29, 2009Moldovan citizens with the right to vote turned out in a proportion of 29.9% by 12:45, according to the estimations of the Central Election Commission (CEC), in particular over 755 thousand voters voted on main lists and over 33 thousand, on the additional...
All parties in Moldova spent less then $1.5M on election campaign
July 29, 2009Moldovan political parties have spent a total of 16.09 million lei (some USD1.45 million) in the run-up to the July 29 early parliamentary elections, the Central Election Commission has reported. According to the financial statements which all runners...
Moldovan election body refuses to accredit Georgian observers
July 28, 2009Eleven Georgian observers who arrived in Moldova to monitor the snap parliamentary election were stopped at the airport on 27 July and told that they should return to Tbilisi on the first flight the next morning as the Central Electoral Commission (CEC...