Promo-LEX seeks modification of electoral legislation so as to ensure correct presidential elections

06.05.2020 13:56
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The presidential elections can be free and fair only if the problems existing in the electoral legislation are solved, while the Central Election Commission (CEC) should play a pro-active role in this regard, said experts of the Promo-LEX Association who issued a public call concerning the urgent necessity of solving legal problems that can affect the organization and conduct of the presidential elections in Moldova in the autumn of 2020, IPN reports.

Promo-LEX asked the CEC to urgently present the proposals to amend the electoral legislation and the related legal framework, worked out with the support of the development partners, for public consultations and to examine the proposals in a meeting and submit them to Parliament for examination.

Parliament is requested to examine and deal with the prescriptions of the Constitutional Court, to initiate the amendment of the electoral legislation with the participation of the parties interested in the public consultation of bills and to use the recommendations of the election observation missions, especially of the presidential elections of October 30, 2016, as a basis for amending the legislation.

In a press release, the association says that after the presidential elections of October 30 (November 13) 2016, the Constitutional Court formulated six prescriptions addressed to Parliament, but this didn’t deal at all with three of the prescriptions, in breach of the law, and partially solved the other three prescriptions.

The CEC, contrary to the commitments assumed publicly before the development partners and the representatives of the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections, didn’t publish and didn’t initiate public consultations on the proposals to amend the electoral legislation and the related legal framework. These proposals were already drafted with the support of the development partners.

Promo-Lex also said that the amendment proposals can be useful for solving problems that can appear in the campaign prior to this autumn’s presidential elections. The immediate initiation of the process of public discussion of the proposals will help improve these and the electoral legislation.