Twenty seven Moldovan parties run risk of being sanctioned for failing to submit financial reports to electoral body

Chisinau, 18 July /MOLDPRES/ - Twenty seven parties run the risk of being sanctioned for failing to submit financial reports to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), on the formations’ financial management for the first half of 2016.   

The deadline for presenting the reports expired on 15 July.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, a CEC representative, Rodica Sirbu, has said that only 18 out of 45 political formations submitted financial reports. “Among them ,there are the parliamentary parties: Democratic Party (PDM), Liberal Party (PL), Party of Socialists (PSRM), Party of Communists (PCRM) and European People’s Party of Moldova (PPEM), as well as extra-parliamentary ones: Action and Solidarity Party, Dignity and Truth Platform Party, Our Party Political Party, Liberal Reformist Party,” Sirbu noted.       

Under the CEC regulation, the financial reforms submitted are to be checked and analyzed by the Commission. “Subsequently, under  legal norms, the political parties which failed to sent reports or presented incomplete data in documents run the risk of being sanctioned with fines worth from 300 to 500 conventional units (6,000 – 10,000 lei),” Sirbu added.  

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor L. Alcaza)