Fraud confirmed by members of the Central Electoral Commission in the Republic of Moldova

We, the members of the Central Electoral Commission, Mihai Buşuleac, Vasile Gafton, Nicolae Gârbu, have signed the proceedings of the Central Electoral Commission regarding the final results of the parliamentary elections for the seventeenth legislature which took place in the Republic of Moldova on April 5 2009, considering the following reticences::

1. Although the final results arise from the proceedings made by the lower electoral structures, we maintain reticence towards the correctness of some figures:

a) the electoral lists have been made out by the local public administrative structures. A big blame concerning the inaccuracy of these lists goes to the Central Electoral Commission which, at the beginning of the electoral period, has rendered to the secretaries of the district councils CDs which included personal data of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova received from the Ministry of Information Technology, personal data which have been used in elaborating the electoral lists.

b) there has been subsequently proven that these CDs contained false data such as:

- the electoral lists included people who died fifteen or twenty years ago;

-the electoral lists included persons who have never resided or do not reside at the addresses mentioned in these lists;

2. The litigations received by the Central Electoral Commission confirmed these frauds with the owners of those houses complaining to the Central Electoral Commission that when coming to voting they noticed that the electoral lists included people with the addresses of the owners to whom they did not conclude an agreement on house permits and residence permits.

3. The incertitudes above-mentioned are objectively confirmed by the fact that On 11 April 2009 the electoral contestant “the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova” disputed on at the Appeal Court Chisinau the decision reached by the Central Electoral Commission no. 2501/ 8 April 2009 according to which all electoral contestants were granted access to the electoral lists including the possibility to obtain copies of them.

4. On April 4 and April 5 the radio broadcaster “EU TV”, which enjoys national coverage, by intendedly violating the provisions of the Article 47 Paragraph 14 of the Election Code, produced electoral abusive turbulence by favouring electoral contestants therefore putting the other electoral contestants in disadvantage.

5. During the electoral period, the electoral contestant the “Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova” has fully used the state administrative resources, which had affected the results of the elections.

Members of the Central Electoral Commission,

Mihai Buşuleac, Vasile Gafton, Nicolae Gârbu

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