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• The Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) has made some specifications on the reasons for which this party has brought to a court the electoral clip of the candidate Braghis. The PCRM press release states: “Our appeal has no relation with the fight against corruption, which PCRM promotes constantly. We have brought to the court the above mentioned clip, as some of its elements bring false accusations towards some of the party leaders. As far as these accusations are not proved, they are pure defamations and make thus the Braghis clip as illegal”.

• On May 17, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE has made public its ad-interim monitoring report on general local elections of June 3, 2007. The report envisages the April 24 — May 7 period. According to the report, the Law on political parties and socio-political organizations confines the possibility of ethnic minorities to establish political formations and, thereby, to participate more actively into the political life. The report considers the electoral contestants appeals, many of them, solved out in the firs instance by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), are then rejected by the courts. According to the document, a similar situation can be viewed in the mass media sector. The international observers find out also that there are opinions that citizens have access to limited information. The ODIHR/ OSCE observation mission has revealed that monitoring of the activity of six TV, two radio stations and of many newspapers has started. The monitoring results of their activity will be announced with a further report. The final monitoring report on the entire election campaign for general local elections will be released approximately eight weeks after the end of the observation mission. (after BASA-press)