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The current president of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon, and the opposition candidate, Maia Sandu, enter the second round, after the presidential elections held on Sunday, show the partial official results, as well as two exit polls announced in Chisinau on Sunday evening after closing. center. The same two candidates entered the second round and the last presidential election four years ago.
UPDATE 23:00 Partial official results of the presidential elections in the Republic of Moldova confirms the trend shown by the exit polls: the current president of the Republic of Moldova, the socialist Igor Dodon, and the candidate of the Pro-European Action and Solidarity Party, Maia Sandu, will enter the the second round of the presidential elections, according to preliminary data presented by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC).
Data presented by the CEC after centralization of closed votes half of the polling stations (1,069 polling stations out of 2,143) show that Igor Dodon obtained 36.22% of the votes, while Maia Sandu had the support of 30.46% of the voters.
Renato Usatii (Political Party “Our Party”) ranks third with 16.51%, and Violeta Ivanov (Political Party “Şor”) is fourth with 8.83%.
In the following positions are Andrei Năstase (Political Party “Platform of Dignity and Truth”), with 3.40%, Octavian Ţîcu (Political Party “Party of National Unity”), with 1.90%, Tudor Deliu (Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova)), with 1.55%, and Dorin Chirtoacă (Unirea electoral bloc) with 1.13%, writes Agerpres.
Voter turnout was visibly lower than in the 2016 presidential election, almost 43 percent, but there were no queues at diaspora polling stations or incidents.
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Initial novelty:
According to the telephone survey conducted by the WatchDog.md Community and the Public Policy Institute, Igor Dodon is credited with 40.9 percent of the votes and Maia Sandu with 34.6 percent of the options of the 1,514 respondents. The survey’s margin of error is 2.5 percent.
Renato Usatii ranked third, with 11.5 percent.
Șor Party candidate Violeta Ivanov ranks fourth, with 6.3 percent of the options, while DA Platform leader Andrei Năstase ranks fifth, with 1.7 percent.
Dorin Chirtoaca, leader of the PL, and Tudor Deliu, candidate of the PLDM, occupy the last positions, with 1.3 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively.
The poll also revealed that for Igor Dodon, older people vote, which is preferred by 76 percent of Russian speakers and appears to have scored better in the north and south of the Republic of Moldova.
Maia Sandu’s electorate is represented by the young population, with a higher level of education, practically exclusively Romanian-speaking (only 6 percent of Russian speakers voted for it). It has the greatest support in Chisinau and the central region of the Republic of Moldova.
Another telephone survey, carried out by the company “Intellect Group” in collaboration with the SPERO association, gives winners to Igor Dodon, with 28.5 percent, and Maia Sandu, with 21.5 percent. Renato Usatii is also in third place, with 8.8 percent. Next up are Violeta Ivanov, with 5.5 percent, and Andrei Nastase, with 4.5 percent. One or less percent would have belonged to Octavian Țîcu, Tudor Deliu and Dorin Chirtoacă. The survey surveyed 3,650 people from the Republic of Moldova, but also from the diaspora, writes Radio Free Europe.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
