The Green Ecologist Party considers the current party-list proportional representation system should be replaced by a uninominal voting system. The party’s chairman Anatolie Prohnitski and two deputy chairmen, in a news conference at IPN, said the introduction of the uninominal voting system is one of the objectives declared by their party in 2009.

According to Anatolie Prohnitski, Parliament should plead for independence, unity and membership in the European Union, while the MPs should be chosen by constituencies, by uninominal vote. This way the people will know their MP and will have a direct connection with this.

The party’s leader also said that the Green Ecologist Party has insisted on the replacement of the electoral system since 2009. The introduction of the uninominal voting system is not related to the wish of a leader, but represents the wish of the people.

Deputy chairman Andrei Dumbraveanu said 13 parties that took part in the election campaign of 2014 had the uninominal voting stipulated in their electoral programs. About 70% of the current MPs supported the introduction of the uninominal voting system in the campaign of 2014 and should thus work with the people, not stage assemblies.

“Many MPs, after they obtained the seat, forgot to at least post the addresses where they can be found,” stated Andrei Dumbraveanu, referring to the fact that these were elected based on party lists and nobody can hold them accountable. He added that the democratic process is now in a state of crisis and things cannot go on like this.

The program of the Green Ecologist Party also includes the direct election of the President, diminution of the number of MPs from 101 to 65, annulment of MP immunity and reduction in the number of ministries to nine.

A legislative initiative to introduce the uninominal voting system was presented by the leader of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc on March 6. The bill will be debated in Parliament after it is appraised by international institutions.