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The Central Election Commission (CEC) launched an appeal addressed to Moldovan local administration bodies and citizens to check with maximal responsibility the compilation of the voters’ rolls. The appeal says:

• the voters’ rolls should be compiled by the mayoralties in two copies for each polling station and should comprise all citizens who officially domicile in radius, notwithstanding of their present the whereabouts;
• the compiled voters’ rolls should be checked at the domiciles of voters;
• the voters who have domicile and residence in different places should be registered with the place of residence in the voters’ roll;
• the voters’ rolls should be available for checking by voters no later on than 20 days before the referendum day;
• the voters should have the possibility to check the correctness of the voters’ rolls in the period August 16–30;
• the voters may contest the correctness of the voters’ rolls no latter than five days before the voting day.

The leader of the Humanist Party of Moldova (PUM), Valeriu Pasat, has called on citizens to vote for direct presidential elections in the course of September 5 referendum. PUM considers the referendum “as a first step on the road of population’s return to the power as in 2010, Moldovan deputies de facto made a “coup d’etat” and deprived citizens from the right to vote their president. It was clear this will bring to breach of democratic principles and to political system degradation”. In the times of Party of Communists ruling, when the head of the state was elected by the Parliament, “we were the witnesses of political perversions and shameful backstage dealings, as it happened on April, 4, 2005, when deputies of the so-called «anticommunist opposition» have voted the communist president”. PUM considers that the ruling Alliance for European Integration (AEI) is organizing the constitutional referendum only for opportunistic reasons, however the “September 5 referendum will become a turning point of Moldovan history. The referendum represents for PUM not only a mechanism of the actual democracy, but a component part of the ideology, which is a guidance for Christian humanists to achieve power executed directly by orthodox population”.