​MCP STANDS AGAINST ELECTORAL SYSTEM CHANGING

The Moldovan Communist Party does not support the Democratic Party's idea to change the electoral system in the republic, reads the MCP Statement which the Party Chairman Vladimir Voronin read out at a press briefing in the Parliament Building on Friday.

The MCP admits that, really, the current electoral system in Moldova has been demonstrating a number of serious shortcomings last few years such as bribing of voters, the using of administrative resources giving considerable advantages to parties in power, manipulating of the public opinion through the media outlets covertly sponsored by political parties, political corruption and, as a consequence, the 'political tourism' flourishing in the Moldovan Parliament.

At the same time, the Statement authors believe that there can be no guarantee that these shortcomings can be overcome simply by transition to an electoral system based on one-mandate constituencies. "Moreover, a transition to the majority voted system will aggravate the existing problems and will generate new ones. Bribing of voters and of elected deputies will become much easier, and this will definitely lead to the concentration of the whole state power in the hands of a small group of people - the ones who are now doing their utmost to re-write the Election Code in the way they desire", believe the Communists.

The MCP also wrote that in the conditions of a one-constituency system, endless court claims are inevitable, and appointments of new elections etc. which will complicate and drag out the formation of a new parliament. And yet another serious risk is that the proposed changes are in fact canceling political parties as the basis of the current political structure of the society in Moldova.