Over 39 per cent of Chisinau residents exercise right to vote till 21 :00

Chisinau, 3 June /MOLDPRES/ - The voter turnout in the runoff of the new local polls for the election of the Chisinau general mayor was of 39.12 per cent and exceeded the voter turnout by about three per cent of the polls from 20 May.

According to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), in the runoff, as many as 248,674 persons came to vote out of the 632,000 ones registered in the electoral lists. The most active voters were elderly people, with about 80,022 voters older than 50 years exercising their right to vote today. Young people were less active, with only 17,269 of them coming to vote.

Just as at the polls from 20 May, the most active voting was in the districts of Rascani and Centru of Chisinau, where a voter turnout of 41.36 per cent and 41.34 per cent, respectively, was recorded. The next come the electors from the Botanica district – 39.78 per cent, Buiucani district – 39.41 per cent and Ciocana – 38.72 per cent.

The rate of participation in Chisinau’s suburbs was of 34.88 per cent. Incidents have not been recorded.

The general mayor elected following the runoff will exercise his powers till the local general polls due in June 2019. The Electoral Code sees that the candidate getting the largest number of votes, no matter the number of electors who took part in the polls, is considered to be elected. If the two candidates pick up an equal number of suffrages, the candidate who got more votes at the first round of the polls is regarded elected.  

Following the new local polls from 20 May 2018, two candidates remained to compete for the runoff: the candidate on behalf of the Political Party, Party of Socialists of Moldova, Ion Ceban, who picked up 40.97 per cent of the votes, and the candidate on the behalf of the Dignity and Truth Platform Political Party, Andrei Nastase, who got 32.12 per cent of the votes.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)