Another prize for Scoop-supported investigation on election fraud
Posted 21-11-2009
Transparency International Moldova chose to award the two repporters Lilia Gurez and Igor Volnitchi for their investigation on the fraud in the election campaign in Moldova.
You can see the feature where the second prize is handed over Here
You can read the investigation 'Moldova - Polygon for Testing 'Dirty' Electoral Techniques' below. Here is how Lilia Gurez sees her and her collegues work:
“We never thought about prizes or awards. But we knew that we needed to show the truth about the parliamentary elections and the conditions under which they took place. We went into villages, talked to people, investigated electoral lists (where we discovered that even dead people had voted!), discussed with experts, and wrote about all the illegalities in the investigation. The investigation (Part I and II has ben printed on the front pages of newspapers all over the country and became popular abroad. We do not know the real impact of the investigation, but we know for sure that now Republic of Moldova has a democratically elected gouvernment and the communists are now in opposition. Of course, we could not produce this investigation without Scoops support”, says Lilia Gurez.
The investigation was recently awarded by the Eurasia Foundation Moldova as the best investigation of the election as well.
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