The seat of MP won by the Party of Socialists’ candidate Ștefan Gațcan in the new parliamentary elections in Hâncești constituency was validated. The Constitutional Court issued the validation decision on March 24, IPN reports.
By the same decision, the Court confirmed the results of the new parliamentary elections held in constituency No. 38 Hâncești on March 15.
According to the Court’s president Vladimir Țurcan, the decision will be passed on to Parliament and to the Central Election Commission. This is definitive and cannot be challenged and will take effect when it is published in the Official Gazette.
The voter turnout at the March 15 elections was 23.33%, which is 14,400 electors. Ștefan Gațcan polled 5,539 votes.
Ștefan Gaţcan is an obstetrician-gynecologist by profession and is a university professor, doctor of medical sciences and echography. He managed the Mother and Child Institute since 2012 until the start of 2016. Currently, he is the director general of the Extramed Medical Center that he founded in 1999. He also teaches at the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemiţanu”.
The Central Election Commission set new parliamentary elections in Hâncești for March 15 after Democratic MP Alexandru Botnari renounced the seat of MP won in this constituency in favor of the post of mayor of Hâncești municipality that he secured in the November 3 mayoral runoffs.
