The victory of the pro -European PAS Party in which took place yesterday in despite its pressure is a “strong mandate for the country’s integration process” in the country, the country’s president Maya Sandu said.
“We have shown all over the world that we are courageous and worthy, that we are not letting us terrorize,” he added at a press conference, referring to the charges of Russian involvement in the elections.
Previously, the leader of her party, Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), Igor Grosso, greeted the victory given by voters.
“The PAS has a parliamentary majority, a pro -European parliamentary majority only because you have offered this trust and this opportunity,” he added, referring to an “extremely difficult battle”.
Go for absolute majority PAS
PAS, which has been in power since 2021 in this country which is one of the poorest in Europe and borders Ukraine and Romania, has won 50.20% of the vote after counting all ballots, according to the electoral committee published on its website.
According to views, it could maintain the absolute majority in parliament with 55 seats in a total of 100, compared to 63 in the outgoing House.
PAS won the pro-Russian patriotic block, which garnered 24.17%, and one of the leaders whose former President Igor Dodon (2016-2020) today called on demonstrations in the capital of Kissinau.
The National Alternative Alternative Movement (MAS) of the Mayor of Kissina, Ion Cheban, who had called on the PAS, took third place, with 7.96% of the vote.
Complaints to the Electoral Committee by the opposition
Igor Dodon, who claimed the victory last night, announced today that he had filed dozens of complaints to the electoral committee. Depending on her decision, “we will take other legal measures,” he warned, during a demonstration he called in front of parliament today at noon, local time.
About 200 people took part shouting “Freedom” and “Moldova”. Refusing to answer journalists’ questions, they were quickly dissolved.
Overall, 52.17% of Moldedian voters participated in the elections, the stakes of which exceeds the simple elections: this is whether the EU will continue or whether there will be a return to Russian guardianship. A percentage of participation slightly below 52.3% in the 2021 parliamentary elections, despite the stakes.
The PAS, mainly criticized for the country’s financial difficulties, limited its retreat to the polls compared to 2021, where it had secured 52.8% of the votes.
About twenty parties and independent candidates took part in the elections in this country, which has about 2.4 million inhabitants and at least one million expatriates who were also invited to vote, a dispersion that greatly contributed to the re -election of President Maya Sandou 2024.
What do OSCE observers say
The parliamentary elections in Moldova were competitive but were tarnished by serious incidents of foreign mixing, the head of the OSCE observers said. Paula Cardoso, co-co-ordinator of the short-term OSCE observers mission, said that the decision of Moldovan officials to block two parties a few days before the election undermined the “legal certainty of the status of the participants and the participants”.
