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• At a press conference today the Liberal Party leaders reiterated their position not to negotiate with opposition parties with view to setting up post-electoral alliances until the final results of the 17 June run-off are known. LP considers that the candidate on behalf of the Party of Communists could win the elections only in case these will be rigged. In order not to allow for this to happen the liberals have requested the Central Electoral Commission to ensure a free and fair ballot and to allow accredited observers access to all electoral operations, including ballot counting (Infotag, BASA-press, Info-Prim Neo).

  Vladimir Filat, former candidate on behalf of the Democratic Party to Chisinau mayor office called upon his democratically oriented supporters to vote for the Liberal Party candidate, Dorin Chirtoaca, in the 17 June run-off. In his press statement, Filat said that the LP candidate represents all democratic political forces in Moldova and all those who want to remove the communist regime from power. Furthermore, Dorin Chirtoaca is encouraged to “do everything not to discredit the notion of change in the administrative system of Chisinau, to take over well founded, positive projects, with concrete solutions, as proposed by the other candidates to the mayor office who will support him in the second round”.

  Valeri Climenco, Chairman of the Congress of Russian Communities in Moldova, leader of the Socio-political Movement “Ravnopravie” called upon Chisinau residents to vote on 17 June for Party of Communists candidate, Veaceslav Iordan. Climenco told a press conference that he had always been in opposition to the current governing party, however, “if the majority of voters will not support Iordan, it is Dorin Chirtoaca who will become mayor, and he has an aggressive attitude towards Russian speaking voters”. “Ravnopravie” Chairman stressed his appeal was not in support of the Party of Communists, but of a concrete person, Veaceslav Iordan, in the hope that the latter will “handle the town’s problems, strengthen relations with Russia and defend the rights of the Russian speaking residents of Chisinau” (Infotag).

  Representatives of the National Union of Students and Youth of Moldova stated that the proposals of the candidate for Chisinau mayor office on behalf of the Party of Communists “are inspired from the urgent needs of the youth in the capital”. They said they were indignant at the “extremist attitude used by the Chairman of the Liberal Party, Mihai Ghimpu, towards the youth in the party he chairs”. According to Union representatives, Veaceslav Iordan met with the youth on numerous occasions and presented them his programme, which meets the goals of the Union (Info-Prim Neo).

• Central Electoral Commission summed up the 3 June election results and approved a corresponding protocol. According to the latter, on 17 June 2007 a second round of elections to the position of mayor will be organised in 473 localities. Repeat elections will be organised in five electoral districts.