The partial results of the presidential elections in the Republic of Moldova show that Maia Sandu won the second round, with a difference of more than 10 percentage points compared to her rival, Alexandr Stoianoglo. The number of citizens who cast their vote in open polling stations outside the country was the highest in history, and almost 83% of them voted for Maia Sandu, the president of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), Angelica, announced on Monday Caraman.
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Maia Sandu goes down in history and becomes the first politician from across the Prut to whom the Moldovans entrust, by direct vote, two consecutive presidential mandates. The former communist president Vladimir Voronin, who led the country for more than eight years, was elected by the Parliament, before Moldova returned in 2016 to the system of electing the president by direct universal suffrage, as was done in the first years after the proclamation of independence .
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The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, won a second mandate, according to the preliminary results published on the website of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), after the processing of 99.86% of the minutes, sent by all voting stations, both in the country and and from abroad.
The ballot was validated by the Central Electoral Commission, CEC representatives announced on Monday.
The difference between the two candidates is more than 140,000 votes and cannot be recovered with the votes to be centralized.
Maia Sandu obtained, according to the data centralized by the CEC up to this time, a score of 55.41% (over 930,000 votes), while her opponent, Alexandr Stoianoglo, was voted by 44.59% of the voters (over 748,000_.
1,698,891 Moldovans went to the polls on Sunday in the country and abroad, representing 54.31% of the total number of citizens with the right to vote.
Of these, 930,512 voters voted for Maia Sandu, and 748,781 for Alexandr Stoianoglo.
The candidate of the socialists, Alexandr Stoianoglo, prevailed among the internal voters, but Maia Sandu counterbalanced with the vote from the diaspora.
In the diaspora, 328,855 voters voted – the largest number of voters since the organization of the elections in the Republic of Moldova.
In the diaspora, Maia Sandu was voted by 82.77% of the voters, while Stoianoglo benefited from the support of 17.23% of the voters.
Among the most active polling stations were those in Moscow, Brescia, Padua and Bucharest.
Most voters in the diaspora:
- Moscow (4,999 voters each in both polling stations)
- Brescia (4,463 voters)
- Bucharest (4,433 voters)
- Padua (4,289 voters)
- Paris (4,012 voters)
- Vicenza (3,673 voters)
- Villeneuve Saint Georges (3,652 voters)
- Venice (3,632 voters)
- Verona (3,558 voters)
