{"id":446273,"date":"2018-12-22T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T08:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=446273"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:53:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T08:53:50","slug":"promo-lex-abuses-committed-moldovan-parties-pre-election-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/promo-lex-abuses-committed-moldovan-parties-pre-election-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Promo-LEX: The abuses committed by the Moldovan parties during the pre-election period"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>The first Report of the Observation Mission of the parliamentary elections that would be held on February 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019 was issued on December 20<sup>th<\/sup> by the Promo-LEX Association. According to report findings, several parties and politicians have abusively used administrative resources and started electoral agitation too early. The monitoring period was between July 27<sup>th<\/sup> and December 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018. <\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Abusive use of administrative resources<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Promo-LEX <a href=\"https:\/\/promolex.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RAPORT-nr.1_MO-Promo-LEX_20.12.2018.pdf\">report<\/a> identified at least two parties whose actions can be qualified as abusive usage of administrative resources: The Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM) and the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM). In addition, contrary to the commitments discussed and included in the Copenhagen Document of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meetings, cases of control over the state institutions by the political parties were identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the case of the <strong>DPM<\/strong>, Promo-LEX has identified at least seven cases where the activities of the potential electoral competitor at national level would contain elements of deviations such as: control over the state institutions, abusive use of administrative resources and citizens bribing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>\u201cDuring 2018, the DPM organized press briefings at the party headquarters where it announced the decisions taken at weekly party sessions. The decisions can be interpreted as commands for the government decision makers. To be noted that it may be difficult for voters to make a difference between the efforts and achievements of the party and, respectively, the efforts and achievements of the Government or of the public authorities. Therefore, a transfer of image from the party to the public authorities and vice versa is observed<\/em>,\u201d stated the Promo-LEX report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the same time, Promo-LEX found that some DPM deputies used administrative resources to accumulate political capital in certain concrete constituencies created for the parliamentary elections of February 24. Thus, for example, Constantin \u0162u\u0163u, on his Facebook page, has attributed the merit for several works carried out in Durle\u015fti, B\u0103cioi, Tru\u0219eni, S\u00eengera and Codru to himself. Similar situations were registered for the cases of the deputies Eugen Nichiforciuc, Oleg S\u00eerbu and Anatolie Zagorodn\u00eei, all of them being DPM members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the case of <strong>PSRM<\/strong>, the abusive use of administrative resources the projects adopted and implemented from public money by the Chi<span lang=\"RO\">\u0219in\u0103u<\/span> Municipal Council was detected. Such projects as renovation of kindergartens and schools in Chi<span lang=\"RO\">\u0219in\u0103u<\/span>, installation of workout fields, yards and gardens, as well as playgrounds for children in Chi<span lang=\"RO\">\u0219in\u0103u<\/span> municipality were attributed to the PSRM.<\/p>\n<h3>Public candidates&#8217; nomination<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Moreover, Promo-LEX has discovered that several political parties have carried out activities that can be qualified as candidates\u2019 nomination ahead of the schedule. These are the PSRM, the <span lang=\"RO\">\u0218or Party also named the Republican Socio-Political Movement Equality, the Party of Action and Solidarity<\/span> (PAS) and the Dignity and Truth Platform Party (DTPP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <strong>PSRM<\/strong>, for example, publicly presented the party&#8217;s candidates for 43 out of the 46 uninominal constituencies established on the territory of Moldova (without the Transnistrian region) in the period of September 8<sup>th<\/sup> to November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2018. The <strong><span lang=\"RO\">\u0218or Party<\/span><\/strong> introduced to people the representatives of the regions. That happened while the territories that are in the area of responsibility of party\u2019s representatives coincide with the borders of the uninominal electoral constituencies. The <strong>PAS<\/strong> and the <strong>DTPP<\/strong> have announced during the pre-election period that they have designated potential candidates to pass the integrity tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The actions of preparation and dissemination of electoral information during the pre-election period, in the Promo-LEX opinion, can also be interpreted as a start of the campaign before the stipulated legal term. In this case, it is the PAS and the DTPP actions (the current electoral bloc <strong>ACUM<\/strong>) which, between November 5<sup>th<\/sup> and December 10<sup>th<\/sup> held meetings with citizens and distributed information material (the ACUM commitments) in at least 21 districts of the Republic of Moldova. However, Promo-LEX mentions that the freedom of expression right in case of the political parties and politicians must be respected.<\/p>\n<h3>Political context, legal framework and conditions of election conduct<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Also, Promo-LEX evaluated the overall political context, the legal framework and the conditions of conducting elections in Moldova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Promo-Lex expressed a negative attitude towards the implementation of the mixed system. They consider that the mixed system should not have been implemented in the context of the parliamentary elections of 24 February 2019. <em>\u201cThere are reasonable suspicions, fuelled by the specificity of implementing the mixed system in societies with unconsolidated democracy, that changing the election system from that of proportional representation of deputies to the mixed one would further favour a possible migration of independent or opposition members of the parliament to the \u2018party in power\u2019,\u201d<\/em> is stated in the report. Promo-LEX mentioned the distinctive feature of the current legislature that has a rate of 38% of deputies who already changed their political affiliation between 2016-2018. 38 deputies out of 101 have moved to the DPM and the European People\u2019s Party of Moldova (EPPM) impelling the parliamentary majority formation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By analysing the changes introduced in the Electoral Code and the legal framework, Promo-LEX found that the principle of stability of electoral law had been violated in the context of adopted amendments for organization of the referendum on the same day as the parliamentary elections. The association considers that it would increase the costs of the elections, would substantially complicate the organization and conduct of the elections, and would create unfair conditions for the participants. Additionally, the cancelation of the restriction regarding the election campaigning on the election day and on the day before could provoke disorders, according to Pomo-LEX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Promo-LEX expressed its concerns regarding the rising number of voters registered on the electoral lists by the State Electoral Register (SER) in the conditions of the country\u2019s depopulation by emigration and a negative population growth. According to Promo-LEX, it contributes to the society&#8217;s mistrust in the SER functionality and in the quality of electoral lists.<\/p>\n<h4>Promo-LEX Observation Mission<\/h4>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Observation Mission Promo-LEX will present a total of 6 reports of the parliamentary election observation. The stated mission of the reports is to diagnose in real time the quality of the organization and conduct of the elections, accountability stimulation of electoral actors and identification of the positive and negative trends in the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Promo-LEX is a public association that aims to develop the democracy in Moldova including the Transnistrian region by promoting and protecting human rights, monitoring democratic processes and strengthening the civil society. The association organizes election observation missions in the Republic of Moldova since 2009. Also, the employees and members of the Association have international experience and participated in election observations in the International Missions in Armenia, Germany, Georgia, Estonia, Norway, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine etc.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- [if !supportFootnotes]--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ftn1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The first Report of the Observation Mission of the parliamentary elections that would be held on February 24th, 2019 was issued on December 20th by the Promo-LEX Association. According to report findings, several parties and politicians have abusively used administrative resources and started electoral agitation too early. The monitoring period was between July 27th and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":446274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[123,100,35,27,125,122,124],"class_list":["post-446273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-abuses","tag-elections","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-monitoring","tag-promo-lex","tag-report"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>The first Report of the Observation Mission of the parliamentary elections that would be held on February 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019 was issued on December 20<sup>th<\/sup> by the Promo-LEX Association. According to report findings, several parties and politicians have abusively used administrative resources and started electoral agitation too early. The monitoring period was between July 27<sup>th<\/sup> and December 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018. <\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Abusive use of administrative resources<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Promo-LEX <a href=\"https:\/\/promolex.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RAPORT-nr.1_MO-Promo-LEX_20.12.2018.pdf\">report<\/a> identified at least two parties whose actions can be qualified as abusive usage of administrative resources: The Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM) and the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM). In addition, contrary to the commitments discussed and included in the Copenhagen Document of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meetings, cases of control over the state institutions by the political parties were identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the case of the <strong>DPM<\/strong>, Promo-LEX has identified at least seven cases where the activities of the potential electoral competitor at national level would contain elements of deviations such as: control over the state institutions, abusive use of administrative resources and citizens bribing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>\u201cDuring 2018, the DPM organized press briefings at the party headquarters where it announced the decisions taken at weekly party sessions. The decisions can be interpreted as commands for the government decision makers. To be noted that it may be difficult for voters to make a difference between the efforts and achievements of the party and, respectively, the efforts and achievements of the Government or of the public authorities. Therefore, a transfer of image from the party to the public authorities and vice versa is observed<\/em>,\u201d stated the Promo-LEX report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the same time, Promo-LEX found that some DPM deputies used administrative resources to accumulate political capital in certain concrete constituencies created for the parliamentary elections of February 24. Thus, for example, Constantin \u0162u\u0163u, on his Facebook page, has attributed the merit for several works carried out in Durle\u015fti, B\u0103cioi, Tru\u0219eni, S\u00eengera and Codru to himself. Similar situations were registered for the cases of the deputies Eugen Nichiforciuc, Oleg S\u00eerbu and Anatolie Zagorodn\u00eei, all of them being DPM members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the case of <strong>PSRM<\/strong>, the abusive use of administrative resources the projects adopted and implemented from public money by the Chi<span lang=\"RO\">\u0219in\u0103u<\/span> Municipal Council was detected. Such projects as renovation of kindergartens and schools in Chi<span lang=\"RO\">\u0219in\u0103u<\/span>, installation of workout fields, yards and gardens, as well as playgrounds for children in Chi<span lang=\"RO\">\u0219in\u0103u<\/span> municipality were attributed to the PSRM.<\/p>\n<h3>Public candidates&#8217; nomination<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Moreover, Promo-LEX has discovered that several political parties have carried out activities that can be qualified as candidates\u2019 nomination ahead of the schedule. These are the PSRM, the <span lang=\"RO\">\u0218or Party also named the Republican Socio-Political Movement Equality, the Party of Action and Solidarity<\/span> (PAS) and the Dignity and Truth Platform Party (DTPP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <strong>PSRM<\/strong>, for example, publicly presented the party&#8217;s candidates for 43 out of the 46 uninominal constituencies established on the territory of Moldova (without the Transnistrian region) in the period of September 8<sup>th<\/sup> to November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2018. The <strong><span lang=\"RO\">\u0218or Party<\/span><\/strong> introduced to people the representatives of the regions. That happened while the territories that are in the area of responsibility of party\u2019s representatives coincide with the borders of the uninominal electoral constituencies. The <strong>PAS<\/strong> and the <strong>DTPP<\/strong> have announced during the pre-election period that they have designated potential candidates to pass the integrity tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The actions of preparation and dissemination of electoral information during the pre-election period, in the Promo-LEX opinion, can also be interpreted as a start of the campaign before the stipulated legal term. In this case, it is the PAS and the DTPP actions (the current electoral bloc <strong>ACUM<\/strong>) which, between November 5<sup>th<\/sup> and December 10<sup>th<\/sup> held meetings with citizens and distributed information material (the ACUM commitments) in at least 21 districts of the Republic of Moldova. However, Promo-LEX mentions that the freedom of expression right in case of the political parties and politicians must be respected.<\/p>\n<h3>Political context, legal framework and conditions of election conduct<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Also, Promo-LEX evaluated the overall political context, the legal framework and the conditions of conducting elections in Moldova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Promo-Lex expressed a negative attitude towards the implementation of the mixed system. They consider that the mixed system should not have been implemented in the context of the parliamentary elections of 24 February 2019. <em>\u201cThere are reasonable suspicions, fuelled by the specificity of implementing the mixed system in societies with unconsolidated democracy, that changing the election system from that of proportional representation of deputies to the mixed one would further favour a possible migration of independent or opposition members of the parliament to the \u2018party in power\u2019,\u201d<\/em> is stated in the report. Promo-LEX mentioned the distinctive feature of the current legislature that has a rate of 38% of deputies who already changed their political affiliation between 2016-2018. 38 deputies out of 101 have moved to the DPM and the European People\u2019s Party of Moldova (EPPM) impelling the parliamentary majority formation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By analysing the changes introduced in the Electoral Code and the legal framework, Promo-LEX found that the principle of stability of electoral law had been violated in the context of adopted amendments for organization of the referendum on the same day as the parliamentary elections. The association considers that it would increase the costs of the elections, would substantially complicate the organization and conduct of the elections, and would create unfair conditions for the participants. Additionally, the cancelation of the restriction regarding the election campaigning on the election day and on the day before could provoke disorders, according to Pomo-LEX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Promo-LEX expressed its concerns regarding the rising number of voters registered on the electoral lists by the State Electoral Register (SER) in the conditions of the country\u2019s depopulation by emigration and a negative population growth. According to Promo-LEX, it contributes to the society&#8217;s mistrust in the SER functionality and in the quality of electoral lists.<\/p>\n<h4>Promo-LEX Observation Mission<\/h4>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Observation Mission Promo-LEX will present a total of 6 reports of the parliamentary election observation. The stated mission of the reports is to diagnose in real time the quality of the organization and conduct of the elections, accountability stimulation of electoral actors and identification of the positive and negative trends in the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Promo-LEX is a public association that aims to develop the democracy in Moldova including the Transnistrian region by promoting and protecting human rights, monitoring democratic processes and strengthening the civil society. The association organizes election observation missions in the Republic of Moldova since 2009. 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