Moldovan PM meets delegation of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe

Chisinau, 30 January /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today had a meeting with a delegation of the pre-electoral mission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Claude Kern. The team of observers is on a visit to Moldova, to monitor the works of preparation for the parliamentary polls due on 24 February 2019, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

The prime minister appreciated the fact that PACE had accepted the invitation to observe the electoral process from Moldova. Filip noted that, at the institutional level, decision-makers had taken all measures to ensure the good carrying out of the future ballot. “It is in our interest for these elections to be fair, free and transparent, so that we leave no element which would doubt the correctness of this electoral campaign. We want as many observers as possible, so that this electoral process is monitored as good as possible and as objectively as possible,” the PM said.  

The PACE delegation members welcomed the openness of the government for communication.  “Moldova is a very important country for us. We are not here to criticize, but to objectively and impartially monitor the electoral process,” the members of the European mission stressed.  

The pre-electoral process in Moldova is monitored by 32 PACE observers, due to be in Moldova till 31 January. A declaration will be issued at the end of the visit. The mission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has been monitoring the electoral process in Moldova beginning with 1994.