{"id":444767,"date":"2017-10-26T19:05:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=444767"},"modified":"2017-10-26T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:05:58","slug":"moldova-government-rejects-draft-giving-gagauzia-3-single-member-electoral-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldova-government-rejects-draft-giving-gagauzia-3-single-member-electoral-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova Government rejects draft giving Gagauzia 3 single-member electoral districts"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

On October 25th, the Government of Moldova gave a red light to the draft law of the Socialists on increasing Gagauzia’s quota to 3 single-member districts in the eventual “electoral districts map” of the mixed electoral system.<\/p>\n

According to Newsmaker.<\/a>md, the Justice Minister Vladimir Cebotari motivated the refusal with the argument that the electoral laws should not be changed in the last year before the elections, as the 2002\u00a0Venice Commission recommendations say. In response, one of the coauthors of the draft, Vladimir \u021aurcan, called the motivation “nonsense”, adding that there is still time until the end of October. \u021aurcan declared that the draft took into consideration OSCE recommendations on the participation of national minorities into social-political life. The Socialist underlined that taking into account the voter population of over 133 thousand, one district would get more than 66 thousand voters- way more than other electoral districts.<\/p>\n

The draft of the Socialists proposed the formation of three electoral districts with “relatively equal number of voters” within Gagauzia, but also the obligation of including at least two representatives of ethnic minorities living in Moldova on party lists.<\/p>\n

According to the new system, 51 MPs would be elected from electoral districts and 50 from party lists. The current edition of the electoral law also stipulates that the electoral districts would be formed by a special Government commission, composed of civil society and political parties\u2019 representatives, as well as representatives of ethnic minorities and expert bodies. The shape of the electoral districts would be published one year before the elections. Voters from Transnistria and from abroad would be represented on the geographical basis, besides their electoral \u201cweight\u201d. 7 electoral debates have been organized to debate the draft on the mixed electoral system, but a large part of the civil society and all opposition parties refused to participate and had little involvement stating that the new system does not address the real problems of the electoral process.<\/p>\n

The Venice Commission\u00a0strongly advised<\/a>\u00a0the Moldovan authorities not to implement the mixed electoral system at the current moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>On October 25th, the Government of Moldova gave a red light to the draft law of the Socialists on increasing Gagauzia’s quota to 3 single-member districts in the eventual “electoral districts map” of the mixed electoral system. According to Newsmaker.md, the Justice Minister Vladimir Cebotari motivated the refusal with the argument that the electoral laws […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":444768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gagauzia","category-reintegration"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

On October 25th, the Government of Moldova gave a red light to the draft law of the Socialists on increasing Gagauzia’s quota to 3 single-member districts in the eventual “electoral districts map” of the mixed electoral system.<\/p>\n

According to Newsmaker.<\/a>md, the Justice Minister Vladimir Cebotari motivated the refusal with the argument that the electoral laws should not be changed in the last year before the elections, as the 2002\u00a0Venice Commission recommendations say. In response, one of the coauthors of the draft, Vladimir \u021aurcan, called the motivation “nonsense”, adding that there is still time until the end of October. \u021aurcan declared that the draft took into consideration OSCE recommendations on the participation of national minorities into social-political life. The Socialist underlined that taking into account the voter population of over 133 thousand, one district would get more than 66 thousand voters- way more than other electoral districts.<\/p>\n

The draft of the Socialists proposed the formation of three electoral districts with “relatively equal number of voters” within Gagauzia, but also the obligation of including at least two representatives of ethnic minorities living in Moldova on party lists.<\/p>\n

According to the new system, 51 MPs would be elected from electoral districts and 50 from party lists. The current edition of the electoral law also stipulates that the electoral districts would be formed by a special Government commission, composed of civil society and political parties\u2019 representatives, as well as representatives of ethnic minorities and expert bodies. The shape of the electoral districts would be published one year before the elections. Voters from Transnistria and from abroad would be represented on the geographical basis, besides their electoral \u201cweight\u201d. 7 electoral debates have been organized to debate the draft on the mixed electoral system, but a large part of the civil society and all opposition parties refused to participate and had little involvement stating that the new system does not address the real problems of the electoral process.<\/p>\n

The Venice Commission\u00a0strongly advised<\/a>\u00a0the Moldovan authorities not to implement the mixed electoral system at the current moment.<\/p>\n

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