Snap Elections
Opinion poll in Moldova: Communists and Voronin - favorites
May 26, 2010Four political parties would join the Legislative if the next Sunday anticipated elections were organized, the results of a Public Opinion Barometer opinion poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute on Wednesday, DECA-press Agency informs. The...
Marian Lupu: Moldova may not have snap elections this year
January 29, 2010On Friday, the Moldovan Democratic Party (PD) leader Marian Lupu stated during a press conference we may not have anticipated elections this year, DECA-press informs. „This is the question we ask ourselves today. I’ve asked for the advice...
October 20, 2009By Natalia Morari Back in the days of colonial India, Delhi had a snake problem. It got so bad that the British administration offered a generous bounty for every killed snake. Evidently they thought the locals would be happy to take up the cause....
Moldova: Russian peacekeepers, big loans and the need for reforms
October 08, 2009By Louis O'Neill Moldova hosts the Summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States this week and hopes to have a better turnout than President Medvedev did in July, at the annual "summit-at-the-races". Back then, only five CIS leaders made...
Ukrainian paper sees Moldovan president losing Russian support
August 11, 2009The Communist authorities in Moldova were losing Russia's support even ahead of the 29 July early parliamentary election, a Ukrainian newspaper has reported quoting a Moldovan expert. The author said that Moscow began to lose trust in President Vladimir...
Note to Moldova: beware the Kiev trap!
August 10, 2009By Louis O'Neill Although Moldova's elections were largely fair, the country's politics now risk going the way of Ukraine's Moldova's opposition leaders - flush from besting Europe's last governing Communist party in repeat parliamentary elections...
Moldova: Opposition's victory in early election as "historic"
August 08, 2009A Moldovan paper, Jurnal de Chisinau, describes Opposition's victory in early election as "historic" The four opposition parties that managed to win 53 out of 101 parliamentary seats in the 29 July early parliamentary election have...
CEC considered Moldova's 29 July parliamentary elections valid
August 05, 2009The Central Election Commission (CEC) approved the draft through which the preterm parliamentary elections on 29 July 2009 were considered valid. According to the final election data presented by the CEC in its sitting on August 4, the PCRM will hold...
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 &...