The Party of Socialists’ candidate for mayor of Chisinau Ion Ceban said he voted for a more beautiful, cleaner and more comfortable city for all the residents, young to old. The candidate cast his ballot allongside his wife and theri two children, IPN reports.

Ion Ceban admitted that he had jitters. He called on the citizens of Chisinau municipality to go and vote as it is right and normal to do so.

Eleven candidates are contending for the mayoralty of Chisinau. For the elections to be valid, the voter turnout should be of at least one fourth of the voters. The candidate who gains more than half of the votes wins the elections. If no one gathers the necessary number of votes, runoffs are held in two weeks for the two candidates who obtained most of the votes. If the elections are invalidated or nullified, they are rerun in two weeks based on the same voter rolls and with the same candidates.