{"id":97440,"date":"2005-03-11T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2005\/03\/11\/moscow-says-moldovas-election-was-not-democratic-958-eng\/"},"modified":"2005-03-11T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T10:58:00","slug":"moscow-says-moldovas-election-was-not-democratic-958-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moscow-says-moldovas-election-was-not-democratic-958-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow says Moldova’s election was not democratic"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"\"Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on 9 March that Moldova’s parliamentary elections failed to meet democratic standards, citing a lack of transparency and biased media coverage, AP reported the same day. "Over the course of the electoral campaign…the Moldovan authorities were intensely using administrative resources," the ministry said in a statement, claiming that the Moldovan state-run media had given "an unfair and biased coverage" to the race. Moscow also criticized Moldovan officials for what the Foreign Ministry called their refusal to let Russian observers monitor the 6 March vote, saying, "The degree of their transparency arouses doubts." Moscow’s assessment contrasted with that of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which said the vote met broad international democratic standards, although the organization assailed largely pro-government coverage on state television (see "RFE\/RL Newsline," 8 March 2005). BW <\/p>\n

…AND DECRIES INTERNATIONAL DOUBLE STANDARDS… Russia has also decried what it called a "double standard" among international election observers who called Moldova’s election free and fair, Interfax reported on 10 March. "A significant number of Moldovan citizens staying abroad were in effect deprived of the chance to realize their electoral rights…. Of the hundreds of thousands of Moldovans who were in Russia at the time of the election, only about 3,000 were able to vote," a Russian Foreign Ministry statement posted on its website on 9 March said. "Unfortunately, facts of this nature were for some reason overlooked by the international observers working in Moldavia. What we see here is the ame practice of double standards, which should be eradicated through drawing up common criteria for monitoring the election process, wherever it takes place," the commentary said. The Russian statement was an apparent reference to international condemnation of elections in Ukraine last year. BW <\/p>\n

…AS INDEPENDENT PARALLEL VOTE COUNT CONFIRMS OFFICIAL TALLY. The results of a parallel vote count of Moldova’s parliamentary vote undertaken by the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections do not differ significantly from the official results, Infotag reported on 9 March. The organization reported that voter turnout was 63.62 percent, with the Party of Moldovan Communists (PCM) winning 45.42 percent, the Democratic Moldova Bloc (BDM) taking 29 percent, and the Popular Party Christian Democratic (PPCD) 8.95 percent. ccording to official results, turnout was 63.71 percent, with the PCM winning 46.1 percent, the BMD taking 28.41 percent and the PPCD 9.07 percent. Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections united more than 150 civic organizations and deployed 2,184 observers to monitor the elections. BW <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on 9 March that Moldova’s parliamentary elections failed to meet democratic standards, citing a lack of transparency and biased media coverage, AP reported the same day. "Over the course of the electoral campaign…the Moldovan authorities were intensely using administrative resources," the ministry said in a statement, claiming that the Moldovan state-run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"\"Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on 9 March that Moldova’s parliamentary elections failed to meet democratic standards, citing a lack of transparency and biased media coverage, AP reported the same day. "Over the course of the electoral campaign…the Moldovan authorities were intensely using administrative resources," the ministry said in a statement, claiming that the Moldovan state-run media had given "an unfair and biased coverage" to the race. Moscow also criticized Moldovan officials for what the Foreign Ministry called their refusal to let Russian observers monitor the 6 March vote, saying, "The degree of their transparency arouses doubts." Moscow’s assessment contrasted with that of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which said the vote met broad international democratic standards, although the organization assailed largely pro-government coverage on state television (see "RFE\/RL Newsline," 8 March 2005). BW <\/p>\n

…AND DECRIES INTERNATIONAL DOUBLE STANDARDS… Russia has also decried what it called a "double standard" among international election observers who called Moldova’s election free and fair, Interfax reported on 10 March. "A significant number of Moldovan citizens staying abroad were in effect deprived of the chance to realize their electoral rights…. Of the hundreds of thousands of Moldovans who were in Russia at the time of the election, only about 3,000 were able to vote," a Russian Foreign Ministry statement posted on its website on 9 March said. "Unfortunately, facts of this nature were for some reason overlooked by the international observers working in Moldavia. What we see here is the ame practice of double standards, which should be eradicated through drawing up common criteria for monitoring the election process, wherever it takes place," the commentary said. The Russian statement was an apparent reference to international condemnation of elections in Ukraine last year. BW <\/p>\n

…AS INDEPENDENT PARALLEL VOTE COUNT CONFIRMS OFFICIAL TALLY. The results of a parallel vote count of Moldova’s parliamentary vote undertaken by the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections do not differ significantly from the official results, Infotag reported on 9 March. The organization reported that voter turnout was 63.62 percent, with the Party of Moldovan Communists (PCM) winning 45.42 percent, the Democratic Moldova Bloc (BDM) taking 29 percent, and the Popular Party Christian Democratic (PPCD) 8.95 percent. ccording to official results, turnout was 63.71 percent, with the PCM winning 46.1 percent, the BMD taking 28.41 percent and the PPCD 9.07 percent. Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections united more than 150 civic organizations and deployed 2,184 observers to monitor the elections. BW <\/p>\n

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