The voter turnout in the presidential runoff was 5.81% on 9am, which is about 164,000 electors voted by that hour. In the municipality of Chisinau, 36,000 voters marked their ballots during the first two hours, IPN reports.

The men were slightly more active in the morning, the ratio of men to women at national level being 50.41%:49.59%.

Some 42.56% of those who voted are aged between 56 and 70. This age category is followed by voters aged between 41 and 55 (25.54%), those aged between 26 and 40 (16.22%), those 71 and older (10.90%) and those aged between 18 and 25 (4.77%).

Campaigning on the Election Day is banned as are the covering of electioneering activities and the appearance of candidates on radio and TV programs.

Polling stations in Moldova are open between 7am and 9pm. In the runoff vote, the elections are declared valid regardless of the voter turnout. The candidate with the highest score is declared winner. If both of the candidates get the same score, the candidate who gained more votes in the first round emerges victorious.