Parliament will not make amendments to the Electoral Code until the ordinary legislative elections that will take place next November, representatives of the Pro-European Coalition said in the program “Moldova Live” on the public TV channel Moldova 1. They made reference to the joint electoral system for which a part of the parties plead, IPN reports.

The leader of the group of Liberal reformers Ion Hadarca said the changes to the Electoral Code must be inevitably coordinated with the Venice Commission, one year before the start of the election campaign.

The leader of the Liberal-Democratic parliamentary group Valeriu Strelet said the ordinary parliamentary elections will be held on November 30, 2014. “We will thus not manage to modify the Electoral Code on time,” he added.

According to a poll presented last week, 22% of the respondents said they are for a joint electoral system, when half of the lawmakers are elected under party lists, while the other half in uninominal constituencies.

In April, at the suggestion of the Democratic MP Vlad Plahotniuc, Parliament passed a law on the joint electoral system in two readings. In May, by the joint votes of the Liberal-Democratic and Communist MPs, the law was abrogated and the old electoral system, based on party lists, was thus restored.