Moldovan PM: State institutions will not allow members of organized criminal group to rig election

Chisinau, Oct. 4 /MOLDPRES/- Prime Minister Dorin Recean convened this morning the Commission for Emergency Situations, and adopted the decision establishing individualization criteria regarding people who do not have the right to run for the 5 November local elections and the possibility to appeal these administrative decisions to the Court of Appeal, the government's communication and protocol department has reported.

At the end of the meeting, Recean said that today the Parliament conevenes in a plenary session to supplement the Electoral Code with provisions that will bring it into line with the considerations held by the Constitutional Court.

"People who have been accused, suspected or indicted of committing crimes that were mentioned as an argument by the Court when declaring the party unconstitutional, have directly carried out actions that were arguments retained in the decision of the Constitutional Court declaring the party as unconstitutional, were excluded from the previous electoral ballot as a result of the violation of the principle of illegal financing committed intentionally or were included in the international sanctions retained in the Court's decision - will not be allowed to run for the 5 November elections. State institutions will not allow members of an organized criminal group to rig the election," Recean said.

The Instruction of the Commission for Emergency Situations can be followed at: https://gov.md/sites/default/files/document/attachments/dispozitia_cse_nr.86_04.10.2023.pdf

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