MP Grigore Petrenco – a de-jure member of the parliamentary Communist faction, who is running for new Parliament on Renato Usatii’ ticket – maintains that the ruling coalition parties realize their inevitable election failure, so they are preparing several scenarios for non-recognition of the November 30 election results.

 

The parliamentarian said at a news conference at Infotag on Wednesday that “the leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party and Democratic Party – Vlad Filat and Vlad Plahotniuc – understand very well that their habitual methods of pressing on voters have been failing lately”.

 

“The administrative resource they use extensively would not work as previously: it is becoming increasingly hard to force citizens out to meetings ‘with the beloved governing parties’. Even civil servants in the localities are showing their discontent and unwillingness to go for such meetings. The media resource – TV channels and portals belonging to party leaders or controlled by the parties – would not help, either. The parties are running out of their potatoes and food-parcel reserves. That’s why the ruling regime is preparing to invalidate the would-be voting results”, presumes the politician.

 

Grigore Petrenco named 3 possible scenarios of the development of events after the November 30 elections.

 

“One scheme will be put into life with the help of the Constitutional Court, which is in the hands of Filat and Plahotniuc. I will explain. There is a caricature on the Moldovan Communist Party – the Party of Communists-Reformists (PCRM). As is known, the Chisinau Appeals Chamber has ruled to suspend the Ministry of Justice decision on registering the PCRM as a legal entity. Accordingly, the Central Election Commission was supposed to withdraw the unregistered organization from the election race. But the CEC has not done this until today! So, the Reformists continue canvassing and will take part in the elections, which the Constitutional Court will be supposed to recognize as valid or not valid. But as the elections are going to take place in the conditions of the continuing collision with the PCRM, our Constitutional Court will not recognize the mandates of new deputies, so the incumbent ruling clique will remain in power for an uncertainly long time”, presumes MP Grigore Petrenco.

 

The second scenario: the using of Transnistrian armed conflict veterans for organizing provocations and clashes at polling stations.

 

“We can see how the veterans are being converted into a Moldovan variant of Ukraine’s notorious Right Sector. Plahotniuc is sculpting real combat groups of them. Some of the veterans have already been living in the Chisinau City Hall for a second week now, scandalizing with the municipal administration consisting essentially of Liberal Party appointees. Other vets happen to appear ‘purely accidentally’ in the Chisinau airport on the outskirts of the city – precisely at the moment when Transnistrian president Yevgeny Shevchuk was preparing to take a plane bound for Moscow. And of course it will be ‘purely by accident’ that the vets will start making provocations on November 30. Seeing such awful incidents, the Constitutional Court will arrive at a conclusion that the elections, held in such adverse conditions, simply may not be recognized as valid”, said Grigore Petrenco, who is Deputy Chairperson of the Unified European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

 

And, finally, the 3rd scenario is a possible failure of the electronic voter register.

 

“The thing is, the 2014 parliamentary election will be the first one to be held by using electronics. Needless to say that the using of an electronic register of voters is a step positive in all senses. Foreign donors provided money for it. But the register may well start malfunctioning, say, at 1pm or 2 pm on November 30, when Filat and Plahotniuc come to realize that their parties are losing the elections”, said the parliamentarian.