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UPDATE 17.30 Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan posted on Facebook a message urging Moldovans in the capital to go to the polls. “Today is the presidential elections in the Republic of Moldova. I urge all Besarabians living in Bucharest to go to the polls and vote with the pro-Romanian and pro-European candidates. There are still a few hours until the closing of the polls, there are still time to choose a better path for the Republic of Moldova.
Each vote counts for the current pro-Russian president, Igor Dodon, not to win the elections, it is a race to the limit, if the presence is small.
Moldovans all over Prut depend on the vote of those outside the borders. Polling stations are open until 9:00 p.m., and in Bucharest you can vote in two places: at the open polling station at the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Romania and at the open electoral college at the Electoral Authority headquarters Permanent. Vote for a European Moldova! “
UPDATE 17.10 So far, more than a million voters have gone to the polls. These are the data presented by the Central Electoral Commission. It is around 36% of the number of people registered on the electoral lists. Of those who went to the polls, almost 54% are women. The most active are those in the 56-70 age category.
UPDATE 16.35 Hundreds of people queue to enter the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Bucharest, some even for three hours. The gendarmes make sure that those who come here respect the distance of 1.5 meters in a row.
UPDATE 16.25 According to Adevarul Moldova, the validation threshold for the presidential elections has been reached. The validation of the elections is determined by the participation in the vote of at least 1/3 of the total number of voters.
UPDATE 16.10 Moldovans in Iasi have been queuing for more than an hour to vote. Dozens of people queue in front of the Consulate of the Republic of Moldova.
UPDATE 16.05 At 4:00 p.m., 33% of the voters voted. 936,400 votes were cast.
UPDATE 15.35 Data from the Central Election Commission show that as of 15:30, more than 78,000 Moldovans attended polling stations abroad, that is, twice as many as in the first round of the 2016 elections.
UPDATE 15.10 At 3:00 p.m., 29% of the voters voted. 827,000 votes were cast.
UPDATE 15.00 The president of the Pro Moldova Party, Andrian Candu, announced that he will not be able to vote in the presidential elections that take place today, November 1. Being infected by COVID-19, the reason for his absence from the vote is that the mobile ballot box at home can only be requested inside the voting table, but the politician does not live where he resides.
UPDATE 14.20 The General Inspection of Police (IGP) has identified three cases of voter corruption and four cases of voting on the ballot.
UPDATE 14.17 Hundreds of Moldovans crowd outside a polling station in Kassel, Germany. A Moldovan woman, who was at the scene, told AGORA that there are no people responsible for organizing the elections and that people are desperately trying to calm things down. Thus, social distance is not respected and exact queues are not formed.
UPDATE 13.35 So far, 20.9% of voters have voted. According to the CEC, 653,000 votes were cast. The most passive voters are young people between 18 and 25 years old, whose participation rate represents 5.78%. Young people are followed by seniors – people over 71 years of age participated in the will, until 1:00 p.m., in a proportion of 11.87%.
UPDATE 12.05 The turnout at 12.00 in the Republic of Moldova is 16%. Approximately 450,000 voters cast their votes. Of these, the majority of voters are over 40 years old. 28,000 people voted in the diaspora.
UPDATE 11.52 In just a few hours since the polling stations opened, the police investigated 15 cases of violations of the law. According to the deputy chief of the General Police Inspection, Marin Maxian, attempts to block the routes to polling stations were registered in five localities. Target localities include: Floresti, Dubasari, Rezina and Bender, writes agora.md.
UPDATE 11.44 The deputy chief of the IGP specified another five cases of transporting voters to polling stations. The law enforcement officer assures that ANTA patrol inspectors and inspectors documented the cases, the registration plates were removed from the transport units and their subsequent movement was prohibited.
UPDATE 11.35 At a London polling station, Moldovans formed huge lines to exercise their right to vote. A local voter told AGORA that people are equipped with masks and maintain their social distance.
UPDATE 11.25 The first incidents occur. A man used a tear gas aerosol that he sprayed in the direction of the people in Varnita, where there is a polling station open to voters on the left bank of Dniester.
UPDATE 11.05 According to CEC data, about 60% of those who voted so far are over 56 years old. They are followed by voters between the ages of 41 and 55. Compared to the first round of the 2016 presidential election, voters aged 26-44 were also more active this morning. At 10:00, approximately 10% more people went to the polls than on October 30, 2016. Young people between the ages of 18 and 25 are more passive than in 2016.
UPDATE 10:58 Poor participation. Only 7% of voters turned out to vote in the Republic of Moldova in the first 3 hours, 3% less than in 2016, reports Agora.md.
UPDATE 10.55 Voted Igor dodon, the independent candidate supported by PSRM: “A strong Moldova, economic development, maintenance of political stability, balance in the relationship with our external partners. I am firmly convinced that the Republic of Moldova must stay away from chaos. We do not need imbalances. We are told that it is a good day when it rains. Everything is insured to prevent the pandemic. “
UPDATE 10.29 The mayor of Chisinau also voted, Ion Ceban. “The vote of each of us matters. It is up to us how the country will develop and what will happen in the coming years. We could choose between stability and uncertainty. I advocate for stability. I believe and know that we can be united by the Republic of Moldova “.
UPDATE 10.20 Voted yes Violet Ivanov, Party candidate Sor. “We vote so that our grandparents and parents have good living conditions, for a prosperous Moldova, for a prosperous agriculture as we deserve it. So that those who live in the town have the same conditions as those in the city. That all citizens go to the polls, the power is in their hands. Today we will decide the future “
UPDATE 10.10 Renato UsatiiThe candidate of our Party for the presidency of the Republic of Moldova said that he voted for a Moldova without “bags” and without schemes.
UPDATE 10.00 According to the data provided by the Central Election Commission, up to 10:00, in all the polling stations open so far abroad, around 12,000 Moldovans voted. The percentage of men is higher than that of women, and the most active category is that of citizens aged 26 to 40, announces agora.md.
UPDATE 09.44 Candidate for the DA Platform, Andrei Nastase, cast your vote. “I have very high expectations, because I lost too many opportunities for the Republic of Moldova, too many beautiful opportunities that fate has offered us. I say that today is a very important day. I urge all people to go to the polls with confidence for a Moldova healthy, educated, right-wing, from which you don’t have to go for small politicians with large ranks, I voted for people not to go abroad, I voted for a Moldova for which word is word, honor is honor. I’m sure that people will choose what they need, “Nastase said.
UPDATE 09:15 The PLDM candidate also voted Tudor Deliu: “I voted for the isolation of the Republic of Moldova.”
UPDATE 09.10 The unionist candidate voted Octavio Ticu. “We must mobilize, go to the polls. We vote for a future with Romania, the North Atlantic allies, a secure state based on well-being. It is what we have always believed and we will fight for it. We saw that there are challenges” To the sections from Transnistria. An exhortation: don’t be provoked, be vigilant, don’t give the Kremlin a reason to say that this is our girl. The regime realizes that it is losing the elections.
UPDATE 09:00 The PAS leader, Maia sandu, voted: “I voted for order in the country, for justice, for well-being, for a state that works for the people, that creates job opportunities for well-paying jobs, at home. For this to happen, we have to get rid of the corruption and incompetence of the Presidency ”, reports Agora.md.
UPDATE 08:15 The candidate of the Political Movement “UNIREA”, Dorin Chirtoaca, states that he voted “in favor of the union of the Republic of Moldova with Romania” and “against the confiscation of the Republic of Moldova by the Kremlin, through manipulation, lies and our non-participation in the vote.”
The order in which the candidates appear on the ballot is as follows: Renato Usatii (Political Party “Our Party”), Andrei Nastase (Political Party “Platform of Dignity and Truth”), Tudor Deliu (Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova ), Igor Dodon (independent), Violeta Ivanov (“Sor” Political Party), Maia Sandu (Action and Solidarity Political Party), Octavian Ticu (“National Unity Party” Political Party) and Dorin Chirtoaca (Unirea Electoral Bloc).
For this election, the Chisinau authorities decided to establish 2,143 polling stations on the territory of the Republic of Moldova and another 139 abroad, most of them in Italy (30), the Russian Federation (17), Romania (13) and United States of America (12).
According to the Constitution, the winner is the candidate who receives the votes of 50% + 1 of the voters present at the polls. If no candidate obtains a simple majority in the first round, a second vote will be held on November 15. The term of the President of the Republic of Moldova is four years.
The validation of the elections is conditioned by the presence at the polls of at least one third of the number of registered voters on the electoral lists (3,287,140 citizens with the right to vote).
In the previous presidential elections, in 2016, the socialist Igor Dodon was appointed president, who defeated the pro-European Maia Sandu in the second round, who was running for the Action and Solidarity Party. In the first round, on October 30, 2016, Dodon obtained 47.98% of the votes, while Maia Sandu obtained 38.71% of the voters. In the second round, on November 13, Dodon had the support of 52.11% of the citizens who went to the polls, and Maia Sandu was voted by 47.89% of the voters. The turnout was 50.95% in the first round of the 2015 presidential elections and 53.45% in the second round.
Sunday’s voting takes place under special conditions, in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, election organizers establish a set of rules that must be observed when entering polling stations. Wearing a protective mask is mandatory. The masks will be made available to voters by representatives of the Central Election Commission.
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