General local elections held in Moldova
07:27 | 20.10.2019 Category: Political
Chisinau, 20 October /MOLDPRES/ – In Moldova, there are held general local elections (ALG), on Sunday, 20 October. The voting citizens will be able to elect their mayors and councilors in 1,969 polling stations open throughout Moldova. Also, four uninominal constituencies are holding new parliamentary elections today. The voting procedure started at 07:00 hours and ends at 21:00 hours.
Following the local election, it will be elected 898 mayors and 11,580 local councilors. For these functions, there participate 3,761 candidates who wish to occupy the position of mayor and 50,410 citizens who want to be advisers.
There were printed a total amount of 7.8 mln ballots for ALG, with over MDL 3.6 mln being spent on it.
The ballots differ by colour. Thus, the bulletin for the election of the mayor of village (commune), city (municipality) is pink, for the election of the mayor of Balti municipality and of the general mayor of Chisinau municipality – violet, for election of councilors in village (municipal), city (municipal) councils – smoked gray, for the election of the councilors in district councils (municipalities Balti and Chisinau) – beige.
According to the Central Election Commission's (CEC) data, the total number of voters registered in the State Register (RS) of voters is 3,285,894 people. Out of the total number, 2,818,228 citizens with voting rights are assigned to administrative – territorial units of level II. The difference includes persons who have citizenship of Moldova, but do not have registration at home or residence and citizens with voting rights having their registered address in the administrative – territorial units on the left bank of the Dniester river.
The poll will be monitored by 1,745 national and international observers accredited by CEC.
It will be installed video cameras in the polling stations, but the central electoral authority claims that they will not compromise the secrecy of vote. The public order on election day will be provided by about 5,000 police officers.
Similarly, alongside with ALG, there are taking place new parliamentary elections in 04 constituencies today. The voters from constituencies №№17, 33, 48 and those in the district №50, Western Europe.
