One problem – two solutions – Cuizauca opted for repairing the sports stadium

Cuizauca's school

On 26 March 2009, the village of Cuizauca, which counts about 2,000 inhabitants, was the last station of the civic education programme “Eu votez pentru ca…”. Since for quite a long time due to a serious illness of the local trainer it was uncertain if this 19^th mock election event would take place, we were happy to get the invitation to Cuizauca and to take the bumpy street up to the Rezina district once again.

As was often the case before, the festivity hall of the village’s school served as a venue. Most of the chairs in the unheated hall were occupied by kids that went to the event immediately after their lessons, but also a considerable number of adults made its way to the school building on a Thursday afternoon. For the first time during the course of the project “Eu votez pentru ca…”, both election platforms, set up by students of Cuizauca’s school, identified the same problem as the main problem of their village that needs to be solved: the lack of sport facilities. Indeed, both groups found different solutions to this problem. This fact promised an interesting debate, during which the proposed solutions and their practicability would be in the centre of attention.

Videos of Mock Election in Cuizauca, Rezina – 26 March 2009

Cimislia’s Mock Election ended up as a school battle – Votes remained uncounted

Cimislia's art college

On 22 March 2009, the project “Eu votez pentru ca…” made stop in the district capital Cimislia, home to about 13,000 people in the south of the Republic of Moldova. It was the first time that the two election platforms were set up by students of two different schools, that is, the Liceu Teoretic Ion Creanga and the Liceu Teoretic Mihai Eminescu. To carry out the mock election event, neutral ground was chosen so that the city’s art college served as venue.

Entering the art college, from the very first beginning it became obvious that the character of Cimislia’s mock election event would differ significantly from other mock election events that had been carried out within the framework of the civic education programme “Eu votez pentru ca…”. It was more likely to be a competition between the two partaking high schools, attended by the respective administrations and a considerable amount of students, than an event dedicated to raise voter participation and democratic awareness. And this was exactly what happened.

Videos of Mock Election in Cimislia – 22 March 2009

Videos of Mock Election in Ciorna, Rezina – 20 March 2009

Ciorna’s Mock Elections turned out a children’s party – Youth club is more attractive than planting trees

Ciorn'as Casa de Cultura

On 20 March 2009, Ciorna’s school kids probably awaited the afternoon full of suspense. When the implementation team of “Eu votez pentru ca…”, to put it more precisely, Victor Koroli, project manager, Lia Sclifos and Serghei Lisenco, both national trainers of CMB, and me arrived at the Casa de Cultura (Culture House) of Rezina’s suburb Ciorna, excited kids hustled and bustled in the cosy warm hall. The villages’s Casa de Cultura is situated next to its school, which served as the basis for the mock election event in the around 2,000 inhabitants counting suburb. The school counts 106 pupils and definitely all of them were present. Indeed, in the last rows also some adults and teenagers that had probably already reached the voting age could be made out.

Videos of Mock Election in Tatarauca Veche, Soroca – 19 March 2009

Videos of Mock Election in Soroca – 18 March 2009

Videos of Mock Election in Rezina – 14 March 2009

Videos of Mock Election in Parcani, Soroca – 7 March 2009