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On Sunday there were incidents in a town on the right bank of the Dniester, where polling stations for Transnistrian voters were organized for the second round of the presidential elections in the Republic of Moldova. It occurs in the conditions in which the election – whose results seem very tight – is marked by high turnout, especially in the diaspora, where voters are queuing to vote.
Dozens of specially equipped police officers intervened to unblock the access of voters from Bender (Tighina) and other towns in Transnistria to four polling stations open to them in the village of Varnița, on the right bank of the Dniester. According to media reports and video footage of the incident, Moldovan police intervened after veterans of the Dniester war blocked the main route linking the northern Bender district of Varnița, claiming they had observed minibuses and other vehicles that bring voters from the left bank of the Dniester in an organized way. The incident took place near the checkpoint on the demarcation line with the territory controlled by the separatist forces, reports Radio Free Europe.
Maia Sandu’s Action and Solidarity Party, which faces power candidate Igor Dodon in the second round of the presidential elections, issued a statement shortly after, accusing Dodon of a “crime against the people.” And in the first round, PAS activists tried to block the route, saying that Transnistrian voters are organizing to vote, in violation of a ban adopted by the Central Election Commission.
The Central Election Commission condemned the “violent actions” that took place in the town of Varniţa of the Anenii Noi district, where the inhabitants of the area tried to block the access of Transnistrian voters to the polling stations arranged within the town, and the special forces of the Police were forced to intervene.
Mass participation in the diaspora
The turnout in the second round of the presidential elections in the Republic of Moldova was, at 3:00 p.m., 15% higher than in the first round, the vice president of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) said at a press conference . , Vladimir Şarban, cited by Agerpres. According to him, at 3:00 p.m., more than 1.1 million voters participated in the elections, bringing the turnout to over 37%.
More than 960,000 voters voted at polling stations in the Republic of Moldova, while more than 148,000 Moldovan citizens voted at polling stations abroad.
The CEC official drew attention to the risk that in various polling stations abroad the ballots would run out, as a result of their overcrowding. Each polling station was assigned 5,000 ballots that cannot be supplemented. CEC officials recommend that foreign voters go to other voting centers where the number of voters is less than the number of ballots.
The number of voters who voted in the diaspora in the second round of the presidential elections in Moldova exceeded, after 15:00, Chisinau time, the number of voters abroad throughout the day in the first round, Europe reports free.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca