{"id":446673,"date":"2019-02-15T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=446673"},"modified":"2019-02-15T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:13:48","slug":"prohibited-vote-defrauded-elections-bloc-acum-demands-diaspora-able-vote-expired-passports-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/prohibited-vote-defrauded-elections-bloc-acum-demands-diaspora-able-vote-expired-passports-video\/","title":{"rendered":"“PROHIBITED VOTE = DEFRAUDED ELECTIONS”. The bloc ‘ACUM’ demands that Diaspora is able to vote with expired passports \/\/ VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

The co-chair of the bloc ‘ACUM’, Maia Sandu, said that the CEC wants to ban the vote for \u00b1100.000 of Moldovan citizens<\/strong> and that this\u00a0is a violation of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

In all these years, the CEC issued election decisions confirming citizens’ right to vote regardless of the status of their passports.<\/p>\n

“We are at the CEC today because these elections are neither free nor fair. CEC and other state institutions do not see or want to take an attitude based on the reported abuses committed by certain electoral contestants. […] The Commission sends signals stating that it will NOT allow our fellow citizens who are abroad to vote within valid foreign passports,” declared Maia Sandu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Representatives of the Diaspora, who attended the event, mentioned that their right to vote was restricted.<\/p>\n

“Our Government likes our money sent abroad, but they don’t seem to like our vote,” said a Moldovan woman, established for 3 years now, in the UK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The protesters have asked the Central Electoral Commission to make a decision based on allowing citizens abroad to vote by expired acts, as in the previous elections.<\/p>\n

Photo: Privesc.eu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>This morning, the electoral bloc ‘ACUM’ organized a public action in front of the Central Electoral Commission with the title “PROHIBITED VOTE = DEFRAUDED ELECTIONS”. The participants were dissatisfied with the fact that Moldovan citizens from abroad will not be able to vote based on expired passports in the February 24 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":446674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-446673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","category-important-en","tag-important","post_format-post-format-video"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

The co-chair of the bloc ‘ACUM’, Maia Sandu, said that the CEC wants to ban the vote for \u00b1100.000 of Moldovan citizens<\/strong> and that this\u00a0is a violation of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

In all these years, the CEC issued election decisions confirming citizens’ right to vote regardless of the status of their passports.<\/p>\n

“We are at the CEC today because these elections are neither free nor fair. CEC and other state institutions do not see or want to take an attitude based on the reported abuses committed by certain electoral contestants. […] The Commission sends signals stating that it will NOT allow our fellow citizens who are abroad to vote within valid foreign passports,” declared Maia Sandu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Representatives of the Diaspora, who attended the event, mentioned that their right to vote was restricted.<\/p>\n

“Our Government likes our money sent abroad, but they don’t seem to like our vote,” said a Moldovan woman, established for 3 years now, in the UK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The protesters have asked the Central Electoral Commission to make a decision based on allowing citizens abroad to vote by expired acts, as in the previous elections.<\/p>\n

Photo: Privesc.eu<\/em><\/p>\n

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