Members and sympathizers of the Revival Party mounted a protest against postal voting in front of the Parliament Building on Thursday. They brought several mannequins with them, suggesting that those were “dead souls” who would vote by mail in the U.S. and Canada if the bill is adopted. The organizers of the demonstration thus warned about potential fraud or manipulations within postal voting, IPN reports.
Yuri Vitneanski, a member of the political bureau of the Revival Party responsible for Chisinau, said that the draft law to introduce postal voting for the Moldovan citizens in the U.S. and Canada is on today’s agenda of Parliament. The Revival Party considers this bill is an attempt by the authorities to do everything possible to rig the elections.
“We understand that people who are not alive or dead souls will “vote” there. These mannequins symbolize those dead souls and the rigging of the presidential election,” said the member of the political bureau of the Revival Party.
The demonstrators also brought with them a dove that, according to the organizers, symbolizes the absurdity of the bill as postal voting for the current Moldovan realities is inappropriate.
The Government on Wednesday approved a draft law that provides for the implementation of postal voting at this autumn’s election for Moldovans in the United States and Canada. The decision comes amid the opposition’s protests and statements condemning the initiative.
