The legislature held a new session today, during which ruling Alliance for European Integration (AEI) M.P.s voted to change the law on the presidential election in the first reading. A second reading is expected to be passed tomorrow.
From now on, elections will be valid even if only one person runs. Previously, the Constitutional Court ruled that at least two candidates needed to be put forth by the legislators.
Candidates can also be registered three days ahead of the election as opposed to five days.
If M.P.s fail to elect a President in two rounds, early legislative elections will be called.
The new law says that early elections can only be held a whole year after the last time the legislature was dissolved, which would theoretically be June 12, 2010.
The ruling Alliance, which is eight votes short of the 61 votes it needs to elect a President, has been scrambling to find a way to get the Party of Communists to vote for a head of state. Although some Communist M.P.s have expressed their willingness to do so, the party leadership, especially Vladimir Voronin, has been adamantly opposed.
Earlier, legislators has to postpone the presidential election initially scheduled for October 23 since only one candidate - the Alliance's Marian Lupu - registered to run.
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