BUCHAREST, Jul 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The pro-president Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), garnered more than half of the votes in Moldovan snap parliamentary elections, on Sunday, showed the official preliminary results presented by the Central Electoral Commission yesterday.
With 99.86 percent of the votes counted, PAS obtained 52.74 percent of the votes, while the Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists (EBCS) won 27.22 percent, and the Sor Party with 5.75 percent.
As a result, the three leading political entities will enter the future parliament, while the other electoral contenders — one bloc, 18 parties and one independent candidate — failed to pass the minimum thresholds of seven percent, five percent and two percent of the total votes, respectively.
The turnout of the elections on Sunday was 48.41 percent, the lowest in the history of parliamentary elections in Moldova.
The official preliminary results indicated that the pro-Western PAS, founded and led by incumbent President, Maia Sandu, before she won the presidential election late last year, would not only secure the most votes, but also gain the majority in the 101-seat unicameral parliament, needed to form a government.
The Moldovan parliament is elected for a four-year term under normal circumstances. The previous parliament, operated in 2019-2021, was dissolved by President Maia Sandu on Apr 28, after two failed attempts to form a government.
Local media said that Sandu has been pushing for an early parliamentary election, soon after her election as president, at the end of last year, as she believed that early elections could change the current parliamentary power balance that is unfavourable for her.
In the disbanded parliament, the Party of Socialists, which formed the EBCS in the current snap elections, with the non-parliamentary Party of Communists, was the largest party with 37 seats, while the PAS had 15 seats.– NNN-AGENCIES
