CEC: 22.4 Million Lei More Needed to Hold Elections

According to the CEC estimates, 22.4 million lei more is needed to organize and conduct early parliamentary elections on July 11. The head of the department, Dorin Cimil, claims that the government will meet to discuss the allocation of the necessary financial resources, tv8.md reports. The journalists contacted representatives of the executive branch to find out if a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers will take place in the near future. They replied that Prime Minister Aureliu Ciocoi is on a business trip abroad, and at the moment there are no meetings scheduled to discuss the funding of elections. It should be reminded that the government allocated 70 million lei in May to organize and hold early parliamentary elections on July 11. The money was to be allocated from the Reserve Fund. It should be noted that the CEC demanded to allocate 125 million lei. Then the acting prime minister of the country said that "if the allocated amount is insufficient, the executive branch will look for new financial opportunities to support the CEC needs."