Igor Dodon is the new president of the Republic of Moldova

Pro-Russian candidate Igor Dodon is the new president of the Republic of Moldova, according to the final results. He defeated Maia Sandu, the pro-European candidate of the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), in the 2nd round of the presidential elections on Sunday, November 13.

Igor Dodon

Igor Dodon became Moldova’s fifth president (pic: wikimedia commons)

According to CEC, Igor Dodon garnered 52.11% of votes, (834.081) while Maia Sandu earned 47.89% of the total votes (766.593).

The second round saw a massive mobilization of the diaspora, which accounted for more than 8% of the approximately 53% of Moldovans who went to polls. The abroad voting was marred by huge queues and lack of ballots. Furthermore, the observers have accused that lots of (pro-Dodon) citizens from Transnistria were massively loaded in buses and brought to the right side of Dnister river to vote.

Igor Dodon, a leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM), is the first directly elected president in the last 20 years after Constitutional Court decided to change the election rules. Moldovan Constitution shows that country’s president has limited powers, much less than the Romanian counterpart, for example. Dodon’s victory has a very important symbolic component, which is Russia’s vector in the fight against the defenders of the European values.

Dodon will have to work closely with a government controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc, a local oligarch who declared himself as a supporter of Maia Sandu, but in turn he attacked her throughout the campaign via his media trust. The government is currently backed by a parliamentary coalition made up of members recruited by Plahotniuc from several parties.
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Voting problems:
Central Electoral Commission (CEC) announced before the elections that the overall number of voters was 3.2 million, a quite impossible figure, considering the constant decline in Moldova’s population, and the fact that preliminary results of the 2014 demographic survey indicated that the total population of the country was only 3 million.

An independent inquiry unveiled that the lists of voters prepared by CEC were inaccurate and contained a significant percentage of deceased people. From a sample of 300 deceased, 100 were still listed as eligible to cast their ballots, according to the online voter registry managed by the CEC.

In the end, the electoral lists included 2,810,057 people eligible to vote, of which 1,614,067 cast their ballots in the second round.
Photo credit: Accent TV 2015 [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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