About 15 thousand citizens participated in runoff elections by 8:30 a.m.

09:54 | 19.11.2023 Category: Political

Chisinau, Nov. 19 /MOLDPRES/- About 15 thousand citizens (1.77% of the voters) participated in the runoff elections by 8:30 a.m. In total, 839,239 people are expected at the polls today.

Central Electoral Commission (CEC) head Angelica Caraman said that all polling stations were opened at 7:00 a.m.

"In two localities in Hâncești district, Cărpineni and Aneni village, Lăpușna commune, the electricity was cut off for about 20 minutes. The problem was fixed and the voting process resumed. In the runoff election, 544 people are running for the 273 mayoral mandates. Two candidates for mayor are included in the ballots, those who received the highest number of votes two weeks ago. Their registration in the ballots was done in descending order of the number of votes accumulated in the first round of voting. The exceptions are the localities of Cotova, Drochia district and Todirești, Ungheni district, where there will be only one candidate for the position of mayor on the ballots," said Caraman.

The CEC management said that, in the second round of voting, the elections will be declared valid if at least 20 percent of the number of people registered in the electoral lists participate.

For the organization of the runoff elections, 609 polling stations were opened. 839,239 voters are expected at the polls, for which the CEC has printed 828,557 ballots.

Also, following the organization of the elections on November 5, it was found that in eight localities in the country, a participation lower than a fourth of the number of people registered in the electoral lists was recorded. In accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Code, the CEC ordered, also for today, the organization of repeated voting of local councilors in these administrative-territorial units and the election of mayors in six localities. 11 polling stations were opened, 22,927 ballots were printed and 12,131 voters are in the basic electoral lists.

The first preliminary data on the election results will be available at 22:00.

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