The Pro-European Party Action and Solidarity (PAS), Moldovia President Maia Sandu won the parliamentary elections held on Sunday (28) with 50.16% of the votes, according to the results released on Monday (29) by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) after 99.91% of the polls.
In second place was the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Block (BEP), with 24.19% of the votes. Another three subtitles, the alternative block (7.97%), the our party (6.2%) and the democracy at home (5.72%), also obtained representation in Parliament, which consists of 101 chairs.
The vote from abroad was decisive for the absolute majority of PAS, who obtained 78.51% of the 276,391 votes issued abroad.
The Sandu Party also won with an absolute majority in the capital, Chisinau, where he obtained 52.68% of the votes, representing 194,999 voters. With these results, PAS would achieve 55 chairs, eight less than in the past legislature, but more than enough to rule alone.
The pro-Russian block would have 26 seats, the alternative with eight, and our party and democracy at home with six each.
BEP leader Igor Dodon summoned all opposition parties to manifest in front of Parliament. “Without party flags or paraphernalia, we must unite to defend our electoral victory. It will be a peaceful and non-violent protest,” said opponent Pro-Russian, who was president of the country between 2016 and 2020.
According to Dodon, “it is evident that the ruling party has lost the elections.”
Russia claims that hundreds of thousands of molds could not vote
Kremlin made statements about the elections in Moldova on Monday, saying that “hundreds of thousands” of molds residing in Russia could not vote for parliamentary elections held on Sunday.
“From what we see and know, we can confirm that hundreds of thousands of molds were deprived of the opportunity to vote in Russia because only two electoral sections were open to them,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at his daily telephone press conference.
At the same time, Peskov pointed out that Moscow will be abstained, for now, to evaluate the results of molding claims. “The evaluations will have to be made after we observe the posture that political forces (molding) adopt in the face of these elections,” Peskov said.
Zelensky celebrates Russia’s “failure” to destabilize elections in Moldova
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated on Monday the triumph of Moldovado’s pro-European President Sandu, in Sunday’s legislative elections, and said Kremlin failed in his attempt to “destabilize” this neighboring Ukraine country.
“I said this morning with Maia Sandu and congratulated her. Russia failed to destabilize Moldova, although she spent huge features to undermine her and corrupt as many people as possible,” Zelensky said in a Videoconcrencing participation at the Warsaw Security Forum.
Zelensky also highlighted the importance of extradition to Moldovia, coming from Greece, days before the elections, oligarch and justice fugitive Vladimir Plahotniuc, who has dominated his country’s political scenario for years and is accused of having participated in a billion euros fraud against the national banking system.
“This act of justice and European cooperation is important not only for Moldova, but for everyone in Europe,” said the Ukrainian President, who has asked to punish “everyone who chooses the war and aligning himself with Russia, from oligarchs to politicians, passing through any other Moscow collaborator.”
