Eight members of the Central Election Commission (CEC) deny the accusations of their colleague Stefan Uratu, who said that the parliamentary elections of 2014 were rigged. CEC president Iurie Ciocan invited the political parties and international organizations to delegate representatives to carry out an internal audit at the Commission. On the other hand, Stefan Uratu said the CEC president is convinced that nobody will be able to perform this audit, IPN reports.
“I speak in the name of eight members who were shocked by the made statements. We, as an institution, always did our job responsibly. We made considerable progress during the last five years in office. At the beginning of the term in 2011, we carried out an audit of the voter rolls. The information system created by the CEC with massive international support is a model one in the region,” Iurie Ciocan said in a press briefing on April 8.
The CEC president said the made accusations represent the position of one person who has no evidence. “We vehemently deny the groundless accusations made against the Commission. We consider these actions represent attempts to undermine our credibility in the electoral process, before new elections – the presidential ones,” stated Iurie Ciocan.
After the the CEC president made statements, Stefan Uratu said he has maintained that the elections were fixed since 2014. “What Iurie Ciocan says are tales told in the hope that nobody will come to perform an internal audit, as I managed to do,” he stated.
According to the CEC member, the proceedings from embassies are signed by the same persons and this is illegal. Moreover, those proceedings were signed in the country and the persons whose names are indicated in those accounts don’t even know that someone signed instead of them. Stefan Uratu said he will continue to warn the state institutions and society about his suspicions concerning the rigging of the parliamentary elections. He avoided saying in whose favor the election were fixed.
