{"id":446422,"date":"2019-01-12T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=446422"},"modified":"2019-01-12T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T12:00:02","slug":"new-year-new-electoral-concerts-gifts-tricks-used-moldovan-politicians-parliamentary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/new-year-new-electoral-concerts-gifts-tricks-used-moldovan-politicians-parliamentary-election\/","title":{"rendered":"A new year \u2013 new electoral concerts and gifts. The tricks used by the Moldovan politicians before the parliamentary election"},"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\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Beside the fact that the new electoral system is really tangled and confusing for the citizens who will vote on February 24<sup>th<\/sup>, it brings new elements of cheating, propaganda, electoral corruption and defiance of the electoral regulation. And that\u2019s only the beginning of the electoral period in Moldova.<\/p>\n<h4>The confusing electoral system<\/h4>\n<p>The parliamentary elections, in February 2019, will be held based on the mixed <a href=\"https:\/\/cec.md\/ro\/sistemul-electoral-mixt-nr1-2784_88507.html\">electoral system<\/a>. That means that every Moldovan citizen will have to vote on 2 electoral lists: one list will include all the candidates from the political parties running for 50 places in the parliament, representing the national constituency. Another list will include the candidates for 51 places representing 51 uninominal constituencies, the lists being different for every uninominal constituency that, generally speaking, corresponds to the country\u2019s districts. That\u2019s already quite confusing, right?<\/p>\n<p>The position of the Republic of Moldova in the top of countries by the Democracy Index, elaborated by The Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiu.com\/Handlers\/WhitepaperHandler.ashx?fi=Democracy_Index_2018.pdf&amp;mode=wp&amp;campaignid=Democracy2018\">publication<\/a>, goes lower and lower from one year to another. Whereas in 2017 Moldova ranked the 78<sup>th<\/sup> in the top, it got one position lower in 2018, keeping the decreasing general trend since 2006 on. \u00a0In the Republic of Moldova, the democracy is deteriorating. This is what The Economist report mainly shows. It happens while the electoral concerts are organised, while people receive small amounts of money in order to protest for a cause they even can\u2019t name, and while the previously accused figures of the Great Bank Robbery in Moldova are running for the parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<h4>The electoral tricks<\/h4>\n<p>In the first week of 2019, the candidates for the uninominal constituencies were started to be announced. Among them are some artists like Nicolae Botgros, a popular Moldovan musician and bandmaster, that decided to run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/nicolae-botgros-candidat-independent-circumscriptia-nr-42-cantemir\/\">as an independent candidate<\/a> for the uninominal constituency representing the district Cantemir, where he was born. It wouldn\u2019t be a problem so far, as any person has the right to become a politician and to run for a place in the Parliament. However, Botgros gave a speech in Str\u0103\u0219eni, another uninominal constituency, <a href=\"https:\/\/unimedia.info\/ro\/news\/606090382564d8ee\/electorala-e-in-toi-doga-botgros-si-alte-personalitati-marcante-au-venit-la-straseni-pentru-a-l-sustine-pe-pavel-filip-pe-circumscriptia-20.html?fbclid=IwAR0YiNetTQPNwBLpxkcvh4ufUp140C9JrQeyPHvDmdMa7sYaIlXK92TtmtU\">offering his support<\/a> for a candidate from the Democratic Party (DPM), namely for Pavel Filip, the current prime minister of the country. Taking into consideration the above-mentioned fact, we could suppose that Nicolae Botgros, the independent candidate that may become a member of the parliament, will support the DPM party in the future as well. The more independent candidates support the DPM, the bigger the possibility that they will hold a majority government is.<\/p>\n<p>One more example of the electoral tricks used during the electoral period is the appearance of a so-called independent candidate that has almost the same name as one of the candidates of extra-governmental opposition. Therefore, people could be confused when having to choose between Andrei N\u0103stase, the leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party (DTPP) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/andrei-nastase-despre-contracandidatul-sau-aflat-cine-este-acest-andrei-nastas-este-un-fost-politist\/\">Andrei Nastas<\/a>, an independent candidate, registered on the same uninominal constituency. Both candidates&#8217; names will appear next to each other on the electoral ballot. It is hard to call it a coincidence, as on the same uninominal constituency nr. 33, which includes several suburb cities of Chisinau, runs Constantin \u021au\u021bu, the candidate from the DPM. Andrei N\u0103stase, the DTPP leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/protv.md\/stiri\/actualitate\/andrei-nastase-despre-contracandidatul-sau-andrei-nastas-din-circumscriptia---2446091.html\">declared<\/a> that it is not more than a trap for voters in order to divide the number of votes.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/stiri\/stiri-politice\/maia-laguta-i-a-furat-identitatea-maiei-sandu\">similar situation<\/a> was registered in 2016 at the presidential elections, when in the very last moment a new candidate appeared on the ballots \u2013 Maia Laguta, an independent candidate with the logo \u201cMAIA\u201d and had, supposedly, the role of distracting from one of the most important candidates \u2013 Maia Sandu, the leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS).<\/p>\n<h4>The expensive electoral concerts<\/h4>\n<p>But all of this seems like a drop in the ocean compared to the fact that such persons as Ilan \u0218or and Vladimir Plahotniuc will participate in the ellections. Ilan\u00a0\u0218or was sentenced in trial court to seven and half years in prison for involvement in the Moldovan Great Bank Robbery. Vladimir Plahotniuc is one of the most controversial persons in the Moldovan politics that directly owns several media platforms and TV channels and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rise.md\/investigatie\/politica-neagra\/\">reported<\/a> by the press as having undeclared assets.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse is that their supporters seem to not care about that, saying the mind-blowing phrase: \u201cAnyway, all of them steal. These guys, at least, share something with us as well.\u201d A detailed portrait of such voters is described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/sor-party-brought-kolkhoz-back-life-profile-usual-moldovan-voter\/\">here<\/a>. The behaviour of the people that come to the Ilan \u0218or electoral <a href=\"https:\/\/reportaje.moldova.org\/omul-lui-sor-de-la-sefia-aeroportului-parlament-pe-muzica-lui-stas-mihailov\/\">concerts of hundreds of thousands<\/a> of dollars, but don\u2019t care or don\u2019t want to know about the source of this money, as well as about the \u0218or\u2019s biography, can\u2019t be explained.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_446431\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-446431\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-446431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilan \u0218or and Stas Mihailov (a Russian singer) at the concert organised by the \u0218or Political Party<br \/>Photo source: Facebook\/The \u0218or political party<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the second Promo-LEX <a href=\"https:\/\/promolex.md\/14223-misiunea-de-observare-promo-lex-prezinta-datele-celui-de-al-doilea-raport-de-monitorizare-a-alegerilor-parlamentare-din-2019\/?lang=ro\">monitoring report<\/a> on parliamentary elections, at least 3 political parties (DPM, the \u0218or Political Party and PSRM) that registered their electoral candidates for the parliamentary elections organised \u00a0events that can be qualified as gifts during the electoral period. These include charity campaigns, New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations, concerts, festive meals and trips organised in the period between December 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018 and January 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019. Also, cases of involvement in electoral activities of charity foundations associated with certain political parties were registered. Out of 100 events qualified by Promo-Lex as being acts of electoral corruption, 42 were organised by the PSRM, 41 by the \u0218or Political Party and 17 by the DPM.<\/p>\n<p>At least 7 moderators, 22 animators, 23 artists (including international ones) were involved in the respective activities. Promo-LEX estimated an amount of minimum 3,776,917 lei (almost 200 000 Euro) as financial means that brought political and electoral advantages but were not included in the financial funds reported by the parties.<\/p>\n<p>Adding the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/political-opposition-moldova-intimidated-maia-sandu-followed-police-blackmailed-every-day\/\"> declarations<\/a> of the extra-parliamentary opposition leaders regarding the intimidation exercised on the parties\u2019 members and activists, the picture of the future election becomes depressing, justifying the aforementioned low Democracy Index in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Petru Grozavu\u2019s declaration in one of the recent editorials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/editia-print\/editoriale\/pdm-nemuritorul\">Ziarul de Gard\u0103<\/a>, \u201cVladimir Plahotniuc and the DPM will fight at the parliamentary elections not with Igor Dodon and PSRM, but with Maia Sandu, Andrei N\u0103stase and the electoral bloc ACUM. They will seek any possible and impossible way to discredit them nationally and in diaspora, and to remove them from the list of Western sympathies. The 2016 scenario is repeated. What&#8217;s new is that the DPM will try to exploit the anti-Russia and pro-American ideas as much as possible, in the context of the Russian-American tensions in the Black Sea. At least, this is what Andrian Candu did during his last interview for The Washington Times,\u201d declared Grozavu.<\/p>\n<p>All of these happen while the Moldovan citizens are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/separation-uncertainty-melancholy-past-main-characteristics-moldovan-population\/\">not interested<\/a> in politics, are not willing to vote at the election but hope to live in a better country in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo source: Facebook\/The \u0218or Political Party<\/p>\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\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Beside the fact that the new electoral system is really tangled and confusing for the citizens who will vote on February 24th, it brings new elements of cheating, propaganda, electoral corruption and defiance of the electoral regulation. And that\u2019s only the beginning of the electoral period in Moldova. The confusing electoral system The parliamentary elections, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":446430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,56],"tags":[158,161,160,35,27,159],"class_list":["post-446422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-reportaje","tag-election","tag-electoral-concerts","tag-electoral-gifts","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-tricks"],"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\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Beside the fact that the new electoral system is really tangled and confusing for the citizens who will vote on February 24<sup>th<\/sup>, it brings new elements of cheating, propaganda, electoral corruption and defiance of the electoral regulation. And that\u2019s only the beginning of the electoral period in Moldova.<\/p>\n<h4>The confusing electoral system<\/h4>\n<p>The parliamentary elections, in February 2019, will be held based on the mixed <a href=\"https:\/\/cec.md\/ro\/sistemul-electoral-mixt-nr1-2784_88507.html\">electoral system<\/a>. That means that every Moldovan citizen will have to vote on 2 electoral lists: one list will include all the candidates from the political parties running for 50 places in the parliament, representing the national constituency. Another list will include the candidates for 51 places representing 51 uninominal constituencies, the lists being different for every uninominal constituency that, generally speaking, corresponds to the country\u2019s districts. That\u2019s already quite confusing, right?<\/p>\n<p>The position of the Republic of Moldova in the top of countries by the Democracy Index, elaborated by The Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiu.com\/Handlers\/WhitepaperHandler.ashx?fi=Democracy_Index_2018.pdf&amp;mode=wp&amp;campaignid=Democracy2018\">publication<\/a>, goes lower and lower from one year to another. Whereas in 2017 Moldova ranked the 78<sup>th<\/sup> in the top, it got one position lower in 2018, keeping the decreasing general trend since 2006 on. \u00a0In the Republic of Moldova, the democracy is deteriorating. This is what The Economist report mainly shows. It happens while the electoral concerts are organised, while people receive small amounts of money in order to protest for a cause they even can\u2019t name, and while the previously accused figures of the Great Bank Robbery in Moldova are running for the parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<h4>The electoral tricks<\/h4>\n<p>In the first week of 2019, the candidates for the uninominal constituencies were started to be announced. Among them are some artists like Nicolae Botgros, a popular Moldovan musician and bandmaster, that decided to run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/nicolae-botgros-candidat-independent-circumscriptia-nr-42-cantemir\/\">as an independent candidate<\/a> for the uninominal constituency representing the district Cantemir, where he was born. It wouldn\u2019t be a problem so far, as any person has the right to become a politician and to run for a place in the Parliament. However, Botgros gave a speech in Str\u0103\u0219eni, another uninominal constituency, <a href=\"https:\/\/unimedia.info\/ro\/news\/606090382564d8ee\/electorala-e-in-toi-doga-botgros-si-alte-personalitati-marcante-au-venit-la-straseni-pentru-a-l-sustine-pe-pavel-filip-pe-circumscriptia-20.html?fbclid=IwAR0YiNetTQPNwBLpxkcvh4ufUp140C9JrQeyPHvDmdMa7sYaIlXK92TtmtU\">offering his support<\/a> for a candidate from the Democratic Party (DPM), namely for Pavel Filip, the current prime minister of the country. Taking into consideration the above-mentioned fact, we could suppose that Nicolae Botgros, the independent candidate that may become a member of the parliament, will support the DPM party in the future as well. The more independent candidates support the DPM, the bigger the possibility that they will hold a majority government is.<\/p>\n<p>One more example of the electoral tricks used during the electoral period is the appearance of a so-called independent candidate that has almost the same name as one of the candidates of extra-governmental opposition. Therefore, people could be confused when having to choose between Andrei N\u0103stase, the leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party (DTPP) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/andrei-nastase-despre-contracandidatul-sau-aflat-cine-este-acest-andrei-nastas-este-un-fost-politist\/\">Andrei Nastas<\/a>, an independent candidate, registered on the same uninominal constituency. Both candidates&#8217; names will appear next to each other on the electoral ballot. It is hard to call it a coincidence, as on the same uninominal constituency nr. 33, which includes several suburb cities of Chisinau, runs Constantin \u021au\u021bu, the candidate from the DPM. Andrei N\u0103stase, the DTPP leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/protv.md\/stiri\/actualitate\/andrei-nastase-despre-contracandidatul-sau-andrei-nastas-din-circumscriptia---2446091.html\">declared<\/a> that it is not more than a trap for voters in order to divide the number of votes.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/stiri\/stiri-politice\/maia-laguta-i-a-furat-identitatea-maiei-sandu\">similar situation<\/a> was registered in 2016 at the presidential elections, when in the very last moment a new candidate appeared on the ballots \u2013 Maia Laguta, an independent candidate with the logo \u201cMAIA\u201d and had, supposedly, the role of distracting from one of the most important candidates \u2013 Maia Sandu, the leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS).<\/p>\n<h4>The expensive electoral concerts<\/h4>\n<p>But all of this seems like a drop in the ocean compared to the fact that such persons as Ilan \u0218or and Vladimir Plahotniuc will participate in the ellections. Ilan\u00a0\u0218or was sentenced in trial court to seven and half years in prison for involvement in the Moldovan Great Bank Robbery. Vladimir Plahotniuc is one of the most controversial persons in the Moldovan politics that directly owns several media platforms and TV channels and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rise.md\/investigatie\/politica-neagra\/\">reported<\/a> by the press as having undeclared assets.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse is that their supporters seem to not care about that, saying the mind-blowing phrase: \u201cAnyway, all of them steal. These guys, at least, share something with us as well.\u201d A detailed portrait of such voters is described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/sor-party-brought-kolkhoz-back-life-profile-usual-moldovan-voter\/\">here<\/a>. The behaviour of the people that come to the Ilan \u0218or electoral <a href=\"https:\/\/reportaje.moldova.org\/omul-lui-sor-de-la-sefia-aeroportului-parlament-pe-muzica-lui-stas-mihailov\/\">concerts of hundreds of thousands<\/a> of dollars, but don\u2019t care or don\u2019t want to know about the source of this money, as well as about the \u0218or\u2019s biography, can\u2019t be explained.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_446431\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-446431\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/sormihailov-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-446431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilan \u0218or and Stas Mihailov (a Russian singer) at the concert organised by the \u0218or Political Party<br \/>Photo source: Facebook\/The \u0218or political party<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the second Promo-LEX <a href=\"https:\/\/promolex.md\/14223-misiunea-de-observare-promo-lex-prezinta-datele-celui-de-al-doilea-raport-de-monitorizare-a-alegerilor-parlamentare-din-2019\/?lang=ro\">monitoring report<\/a> on parliamentary elections, at least 3 political parties (DPM, the \u0218or Political Party and PSRM) that registered their electoral candidates for the parliamentary elections organised \u00a0events that can be qualified as gifts during the electoral period. These include charity campaigns, New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations, concerts, festive meals and trips organised in the period between December 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018 and January 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019. Also, cases of involvement in electoral activities of charity foundations associated with certain political parties were registered. Out of 100 events qualified by Promo-Lex as being acts of electoral corruption, 42 were organised by the PSRM, 41 by the \u0218or Political Party and 17 by the DPM.<\/p>\n<p>At least 7 moderators, 22 animators, 23 artists (including international ones) were involved in the respective activities. Promo-LEX estimated an amount of minimum 3,776,917 lei (almost 200 000 Euro) as financial means that brought political and electoral advantages but were not included in the financial funds reported by the parties.<\/p>\n<p>Adding the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/political-opposition-moldova-intimidated-maia-sandu-followed-police-blackmailed-every-day\/\"> declarations<\/a> of the extra-parliamentary opposition leaders regarding the intimidation exercised on the parties\u2019 members and activists, the picture of the future election becomes depressing, justifying the aforementioned low Democracy Index in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Petru Grozavu\u2019s declaration in one of the recent editorials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/editia-print\/editoriale\/pdm-nemuritorul\">Ziarul de Gard\u0103<\/a>, \u201cVladimir Plahotniuc and the DPM will fight at the parliamentary elections not with Igor Dodon and PSRM, but with Maia Sandu, Andrei N\u0103stase and the electoral bloc ACUM. They will seek any possible and impossible way to discredit them nationally and in diaspora, and to remove them from the list of Western sympathies. The 2016 scenario is repeated. What&#8217;s new is that the DPM will try to exploit the anti-Russia and pro-American ideas as much as possible, in the context of the Russian-American tensions in the Black Sea. At least, this is what Andrian Candu did during his last interview for The Washington Times,\u201d declared Grozavu.<\/p>\n<p>All of these happen while the Moldovan citizens are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/separation-uncertainty-melancholy-past-main-characteristics-moldovan-population\/\">not interested<\/a> in politics, are not willing to vote at the election but hope to live in a better country in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo source: Facebook\/The \u0218or Political Party<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/new-year-new-electoral-concerts-gifts-tricks-used-moldovan-politicians-parliamentary-election\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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