The elections in eight localities of Moldova will be rerun as the turnout of voters there was lower than the required threshold of ¼ of the voting-eligible population. These are: Sămănanca village of Orhei district, Cunicea and Nicolaevca villages of Florești district, Aluatu and Salcia villages of Taraclia district, and Chioselia Rusă, Chirsova and Cotovscoe villages of the ATU Gagauzia, IPN reports.
CEC chairwoman Angelica Caraman told a news conference that the national voter turnout was of 41.4%, with over 1,147 million citizens having cast their ballots. The data will be supplemented with the votes cast through the mobile ballot box. Compared with the local elections of 2019, the voter turnout is slightly lower. The turnout then was 41.7%.
In eight localities of the country, out of the 898 localities in which elections were held, the voter turnout was lower than 25%. “The CEC will order a rerun in those localities based on the same registers of voters and the same data from electoral lists, with the same candidates and the same electoral councils and offices,” stated Angelica Caraman.
If none of the candidates gains more than half of the valid votes cast, a runoff vote involving the two candidates with the highest number of votes in the first round voting will be held in two weeks.
