Parliamentary election in Moldova in 2005
The parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova in 2005 took place on Sunday, March 6, 2005. Since the president is not elected directly by the people, but by parliament , it was also an indirect presidential election.
Electoral system
There are 101 seats in the Moldovan Parliament for a legislature dominated by four years. A six percent threshold was applied to the authorized parties . The election was based on proportional representation .
Election result
The strongest among the lists that did not make the jump over the 6% hurdle was the Blocul electoral “Patria-Rodina” (BePR). The turnout was 64.84%.
This enabled the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM), under the leadership of President Vladimir Voronin, who has been in office since 2001, to defend its supremacy. OSCE election observers rated the elections as free, but not only criticized the one-sided media coverage in favor of the ruling party PCRM in the run-up to the elections. In contrast to the OSCE, the Russian government described the election result as incorrect and justified this with, among other things, the high number of Moldovans in Russia who were not able to participate in the elections. In their view, representatives of Russia had long since criticized Voronin's Romanian nationalist policy towards the Russian minority in Moldova.
An “orange effect” that was prematurely written in the western press, as in the 2004 elections in Ukraine , did not materialize. However, the communist Vladimir Voronin can hardly be called a follower of Moscow. On the question of the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic , which had split off in 1992 , he strongly criticized Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin , whom he accused of continuing to station Russian troops in Transnistria.
Voronin's opponents in the elections were Serafim Urecheanu , then mayor of Chișinău and chairman of the Democratic Moldova bloc , an electoral platform of 16 parties, and Iurie Roşca , chairman of the Christian Democratic People's Party.
In the split-off region of Transnistria , a vote was expressly called for. It was hoped that the support of the Democratic Moldova bloc would bring about a change in government.
In the capital Chișinău , a new type of digital voting system was used for the first time, which should enable the votes to be evaluated in real time - revolutionary for a poor and backward country like Moldova.
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Communist Party of Moldova (PCRM) | 716.336 | 45.98 | -4.09 | 56 | -15 | |
| Electoral block "Democratic Moldova" (BMD) | 444.377 | 28.53 | +28.53 | 34 | +34 | |
| Christian Democratic People's Party (PPCD) | 141,341 | 9.07 | +0.83 | 11 | - | |
| Wahlblock Heimat (BePR) | 77,490 | 4.97 | +4.97 | - | - | |
| Social Democratic Party of Moldova (PSDM) | 45,551 | 2.92 | +0.45 | - | - | |
| Republican Social Policy Movement "Equal Rights" (MRR) | 44,129 | 2.83 | +2.39 | - | - | |
| Moldovan Social and Economic Justice Party (PDSEM) | 25,870 | 1.66 | +1.66 | - | - | |
| Christian Democratic Peasant Party of Moldova (PŢCDM) | 21,365 | 1.37 | +1.10 | - | - | |
| Workers' Union "Homeland" (UMPR) | 14,399 | 0.92 | +0.92 | - | - | |
| Center Union of Moldova (UCM) | 11,702 | 0.75 | +0.75 | - | - | |
| Republican Party of Moldova (PRM) | 592 | 0.04 | +0.04 | - | - | |
| Independent candidates | 14,676 | 0.94 | -1.35 | - | - | |
| total | 1,557,828 | 100.00 | 101 | |||
| Eligible voters | 2,430,537 | |||||
| voter turnout | 64.84% | |||||
| Votes cast | 1,576,079 | |||||
| Invalid votes | 18,251 | |||||
| Source: | ||||||
Presidential election by parliament
Since the parliament elects the president in the Republic of Moldova, the parliamentary elections on April 4, 2005 also required the election of the new president. The PCRM nominated the previous incumbent Vladimir Voronin for re-election. The PCRM also nominated the scientist and President of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences Gheorghe Duca as an opposing candidate in order to comply with the constitutional provisions of an opposing candidate. The two opposition parties had announced that they would boycott the vote. For his re-election, Voronin not only needed an absolute majority, but also a majority of 61 of the 101 votes according to the Moldovan constitution .
But after several MPs had already resigned from the faction of the Democratic Moldova bloc, which consisted of several parties, in the weeks between the parliamentary election and the presidential election and had rallied in the newly founded faction of the Democratic Party (chairman Dumitru Diacov , 8 MPs), they briefly let themselves be After the vote, the Christian Democratic People's Party under Iurie Roşca and 3 members of the Social Liberal Party ( elected to parliament via the Democratic Moldova block , chairman Oleg Serebrian ) also changed their minds. Voronin got a comfortable majority of 75 of the 101 votes. There was one vote for Gheorghe Duca. The remaining MPs of the BMD boycotted the vote.
After the election, Voronin reiterated his goal of bringing the Republic of Moldova closer to Europe .
Web links
Official:
- Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Moldova Official website (Romanian, Russian)
- Parliament of the Republic of Moldova Official Website (Romanian)
- 2005 elections (ADEPT)
Election observation:
- OSCE report (Engl.)
Media:
- Parliamentary election valid in Moldova - tagesschau.de (tagesschau.de archive)
- dw-world.de
- zeit.de
- Wikinews article on parliamentary elections
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Results of parliamentary elections 2005 e-democracy.md (Romanian, Russian, English)
