Now that the residential runoff is over, complaints and accusations will follow and investigations will be probably conducted, but the problem is that the train already left because an election process cannot be reversed to the point zero. The game is over and there is a winner and a loser, executive director of the Institute for Development and Social Initiative “Viitorul” Igor Munteanu stated in an interview for Radio Free Europe. According to him, there were hundreds of signals showing those who lost that they lost because the elections were rigged, IPN reports.

Igor Munteanu said that regretfully, many of the Moldovans will consider themselves defeated because their ideals are not represented by what Igor Dodon stated in the election campaign and there are big risks that some of his exotic ideas will materialize.

“If you allow me to summarize the consequences of this dramatic victory by Igor Dodon in yesterday’s elections, I would say the following: first of all, the election results are challengeable. There is no national consensus on the way the people voted or the way the election process was organized. This will cause a very big disappointment to voters as half of the population is not represented by this candidate, even if Dodon said he will be President for everyone and we do not need hatred in society. The disappointment could continue in a galloping way,” stated Igor Munteanu.

According to him, there are real risks that the national political agenda will be distorted by federalization and other initiatives that would cause considerable tension in society despite the very optimistic statements made by Igor Dodon now, following his fresh election.

With 99.9% of the votes counted, Igor Dodon won the elections with 835,000 votes. Maia Sandu gathered over 761,000 votes. The turnout of voters in the presidential runoff was over 53%.