Final results of elections: PCRM – 48 seats, PLDM – 18, PL – 15, PDM – 13 and AMN – 7

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced the final results of the early parliamentary elections of July 29. The protocol will be submitted on August 7 to the Constitutional Court, which has 10 days to decide on the validity of the poll, Info-Prim Neo reports. Thus, the 18th Legislature of Moldova, according to the final results announced by the CEC, will be made up of 48 PCRM parliamentarians, 18 – PLDM, 15 – PL, 13 – PDM and 7– AMN MPs . The representatives of the PL and AMN about the CEC, Roman Andries and Nicolae Raileanu, question the results. According to them, the PCRM should rest with 47 seats, PLDM – 17, PL – 16, PDM – 13, and AMN -- 8. CEC secretary Iurie Ciocan says the method of calculating the seats used by the CEC is in accordance with the d`Hondt formula, is the only legal and accepted by the Election Code. Raileanu maintains, however, that this system has an error of margin of over 35%. Both Iurie Ciocan and Nicolae Raileanu presented their calculation formulae at the CEC's sitting. “Mr. Raileanu's formula may have a mathematic logic, but not a legal logic,” Ciocan said. The number of voters on the lists was over 2.6 million. In its totaling minutes, the CEC established that the number of voters having cast ballots was over 1.6 million, what is more than 1/3 of the turnout needed to consider the elections valid.