As a basis for the calculation of the stable population are the results of the population census of 1989. This is the response of the National Bureau of Statistics offered to the Central Electoral Commission regarding data related to the population number and the total number of voters of Moldova. The information was made public by CEC secretary Maxim Lebedinschi on a TVC 21 broadcast.
Maxim Lebedinschi says that the commission has requested information from the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS) regarding the differences related to the population number and the number of voters. The answer states that the stable population consists of persons who have a permanent residence inside the country or inside a territorial administrative unit, including temporarily absent persons. "The results of the population census of 1989 serve as a basis for the calculation of the stable population. The territorial disaggregations are available for this type of population at region, district and city level, yet are not available at state level. The present population only includes people who are currently located in the country and its measurement is based on the results of the 2004 census, disaggregated by territory”, says the CEC member.
Maxim Lebedinschi says that he does not understand why accusation related to voter number data differences are aimed at the CEC when the BNS operates with data from 1989 and 2004. “Additionally, we consider that over one million citizens of Moldova are abroad and we know that these citizens did not remove themselves from residence registration lists. They continue to exist on electoral rolls and if these citizens have not permanently settled abroad, they will have the opportunity, at any time, to come home and vote at the polling station. This is a natural matter”, says Maxim Lebedinschi.
The secretary explains that as long as deceased persons information is not transferred by the local public authority to the Public Services Agency, the dead citizens will continue to exist in the State Register of Population. "We have cases when relatives do not bring death certificates of persons deceased abroad in order to record it in Moldova, thus these deceased citizens will continue to legally exist in the State Register of Population. The State Register of Voters depends on the information from the State Register of Population”, says Maxim Lebedinschi.
According to CEC, the total number of voters registered in the State Register of Voters is 3 285 894 people. Out of the total number, 2 818 228 citizens with voting rights are assigned to second level administrative-territorial units. The difference consists of persons who are citizens of the Republic of Moldova, but do not have a home or residence registration. The difference includes those who have legally emigrated abroad and citizens with the right to vote who have their address registered in the administrative-territorial units on the left bank of the Dniester, temporarily outside the sovereign control of the constitutional authorities of the Republic of Moldova.
