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Maia Sandu won the presidential elections in the Republic of Moldova, according to the first results of the exit poll conducted over the phone by the WatchDog.md community and the Chisinau Public Policy Institute.
Thus, according to data obtained at 8:00 p.m., an hour before the polls closed, 54.7 percent of voters said they voted with Maia Sandu, while 45.3 percent with the current president Igor Dodon.
The poll was not conducted among diaspora voters, but only in the Republic of Moldova, without Transnistria. On Sunday, large lines formed to vote in the diaspora. We remind you that in the first round of the presidential elections, the vote in the Republic of Moldova was won by Igor Dodon, but after counting the votes in the diaspora, Maia Sandu placed at the top of the ballot, with a difference of more than 3 percent of Igor Dodon.
“We can say with great confidence that Maia Sandu won this election,” said WatchDog President Valeriu Pasha.
The telephone survey conducted by the WatchDog.md Community and the Public Policy Institute has a margin of error of 2.2 percent. The telephone poll contacted 2,904 people who had already voted, and the rate of those who refused to answer was quite high, almost 28 percent. 1,983 people answered the survey questions.
“The 10 percent difference will increase in favor of Maia Sandu. Once the diaspora results start to come in, this difference will go from great to huge. Igor Dodon has sadly lost this” referendum “of confidence for all his work. , this is the result of his work in the last four years, “said the analyst. Victor ciobanu, at the conference where the telephone survey conducted by WatchDog.md and the Public Policy Institute was presented.
Another exit poll, conducted by Intellect Group and SPERO, credits Maia Sandu with 54.8 percent of the vote, while Igor Dodon said only 45.2 percent of the voters surveyed voted.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
