Moldovan electoral body says constituencies for parliamentary elections 2018 to have different financial ceiling

Chisinau, 21 January /MOLDPRES/ – All 51 uninominal constituencies, similarly as national constituency, established in the parliamentary elections 2018, will have a different financial ceiling. The announcement made head of CEC, Alina Russu, in an exclusive interview for agency.

According to the cited source, CEC will necessarily set a ceiling for financial means that can be used by an electoral competitor within electoral campaign in a uninominal constituency, and each of these 51 constituencies will have its ceiling. "We will have a financial ceiling for the national constituency," said Russu.

The CEC’s chairman specified that election participants not to be beneficiaries of budgetary state allocations. "The law on political parties regulates that only political parties can benefit from budget subsidies. As such, in order to receive those state subsidies, two criteria apply: performances at parliamentary and local elections," said the official.

The head of CEC said that parliamentary elections 2018 would be organized based upon new provisions of Electoral Code, which provide for 51 uninominal constituencies and a single national constituency. "The candidates in uninominal constituencies may be independent candidates or nominated by political parties. As it stands for national constituency, there are supposed to be only political parties there. The independent candidates can not run in multiple constituencies. But, however, a citizen can run in a majority constituency, as an independent and proportional constituency, on the list of a political party," said Russu.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor A. Raileanu)