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• As a result of CEC demand for additional funding to organize general local elections of June 3, the Government has decided to provide 15.4 millions lei for this purpose. Overall, the cost of general local elections will be as high as 33.9 millions lei.

  According to the municipal administration officials, all polling stations from Chisinau are prepared for local elections. On May 14, all 285 polling stations from Chisinau were opened and, in the line with the Electoral Code requirements, the electoral rolls were posted 20 days before the Election Day. The local authorities and electoral bureaus members started to send invitations to voters. A representative of the local public administration Division has specified that the municipality looks over the situation with electoral posters, and cooperates in this respect with political parties and candidates involved into the electoral campaign.

• Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has accredited 72 international observers and 5 national observers to monitor general local elections. The international observers represent the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), while national observers were accredited from the side of the Institute for Democracy. To date, with the purpose to monitor general local elections were accredited overall 129 national and international observers.

• CEC has warned “Pro TV Chisinau” and “Euro TV” stations over the need to observe the Regulation on the election campaign coverage by mass media. The warning has been made as the Coordinator Council of Audiovisual (CCA) had found out derogations in the broadcasting schedule of those two stations, especially by exceeding the limits concerning the air time offered for electoral ads. in a single day.

  CCA has warned also “Moldova 1” and “NIT” TV stations for lack of pluralism and impartiality in their news programs. The president of the “Teleradio-Moldova” Company rejected the accusations, qualifying the critics as “interference in the Company’s affairs”.

  CEC has warned Telenesti local administration over the misuse of public funds with en electoral purpose. The notification over this phenomenon has been made by the Social Liberal Party, which revealed that on May 13, at a rayonal working sitting with the participation of the speaker Marian Lupu, elements of electoral propaganda were admitted in the favour of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM). The representatives of the parties in question had different views on the Speaker’s visit to Telenesti. CEC has admitted the notification, with photos that prove the presence of the PCRM electoral contestant at the sitting, near the Speaker Marian Lupu, and a receipt proving that Telenesti Rayonal Council paid the rent for the premise of sitting. CEC will inform the Court of Accounts about this case. (after Info-Prim Neo)