Sandu elected president of Moldova – CEC / GORDON data



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After counting 98.37% of the votes in the second round of the presidential elections in Moldova, former Prime Minister Maia Sandu obtained 55.68% of the votes. The current president Igor Dodon has lost even the theoretical chances of winning.

Former Moldovan Prime Minister Maia Sandu won the second round of the presidential elections on November 15. This is demonstrated by the data on the counting of 98.37% of the votes published on the website of the country’s CEC.

Sandu received the support of 55.68% of the voters, while his rival, the current president of Moldova, Igor Dodon, received the support of 44.32%.

Thus, Dodon lost even the theoretical chances of winning the presidential election.

Participation in the second round was 52.75%, according to the CEC.

An exit poll conducted on November 15 by WatchDog.md showed that Sandu won with a score of 54.7%.

First round of presidential elections in Moldova took place on November 1, eight candidates. Sandu (36.16%) and Dodon (32.61%) scored more.

Sandu is 48 years old. She was born in the village of Risipen in the Falesti region of Moldova (near the Romanian border). Graduated from the Academy of Economic Education in Chisinau with a degree in management, The Academy of Public Administration headed by the President of Moldova (Master of International Relations) and Harvard University (Master of Public Administration).

In 1994-1998 he worked at the Moldovan Ministry of Economy and then at the World Bank office in Chisinau. In 2010-2012, she was an advisor to the executive director of the World Bank and lived in the United States.

In 2012 she returned to Moldova and agreed to become the country’s education minister. He held this position for three years. So she founded the party Action and solidarity“, participated in the 2016 presidential elections, reached the second round, but then the pro-Russian Igor Dodon won, who received 834 thousand votes, Sandu was supported in the second round 766.6 thousand voters.

In February 2019, parliamentary elections were held in the country, Sandu was elected deputy. In June, in the context of the constitutional crisis, the parliament appointed her Prime Minister of Moldova, in November, at the initiative of the Party of Socialists (before the presidency, the political force was led by Dodon), this government was removed from office.



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