The integrity certificate that was needed by those who ran in the February 24, 2019 parliamentary elections held under the mixed electoral system is likely to be excluded. In public hearings on the bill to annul the mixed electoral system and to restore the party-list proportional representation system that were staged by the Parliament’s legal commission for appointments and immunities on July 22, the commission’s chairman Sergiu Litvinenko said the presence of the integrity certificate didn’t prove its efficiency at the parliamentary elections, IPN reports.

According to Sergiu Litvinenko, of the ACUM Bloc, it was hard for the candidates to obtain the integrity certificate that actually didn’t have any value. Issuing this at the local elections will be a waste of state funds at a time when the National Integrity Authority that provides the certificate has only nine employees.

The leader of Lex Sripta association Mihai Corj said a signed own responsibility statement can replace the integrity certificate.

Ilian Cașu, of Our Party, underlined that the necessity of presenting the integrity certificate was invented by the former government in order to advantage itself.

“Democracy at Home” Party leader Vasile Costiuc said the necessity of presenting an integrity certificate impedes the participation by a candidate in the electoral process.

In another development, “WatchDog” expert Valeriu Pașa proposed returning to the 60-day election campaign so that an electoral contender has time to prepare the set of required documents.