The Moldova Institute for Human Rights (IDOM) warns that the right to vote of the patients from psychiatric hospitals can be limited. Even if voting at these institutions runs without incidents, at the Municipal Clinical Psychiatric Hospital located in Codru town, six persons were deprived of the right to vote, IPN reports.

According to IDOM, many of the patients said they were informed that they must ask the hospital’s administration to be included on the additional lists. The representatives of IDOM established that the compilation of the electoral lists at the Municipal Clinical Psychiatry Hospital in Codru was finished on November 27, at 12 noon. Thus, the persons who were hospitalized after 12 noon until now will not be on the lists and will be unable to vote.

The situation is better at the psychiatric-neurological hospitals, where the patients will be able to vote after 3pm, according to the voting procedure at the place where they are. In accordance with the lists and voting requests, about 1,240 persons of these institutions will be able to cast their ballots.

The IDOM mobilized 30 national observers accredited by the Central Election Commission to supervise voting at 10 psychiatric institutions.