By 12:00 a.m. and with 27% of the vote records for the national constituency tabulated, the Socialist Party gets 30.04% of the vote, followed by the Democratic Party with 29.04%.
The electoral bloc NOW comes third with 21.22% of the vote, and Shor Party has so far polled 10.44%.
The scores of the remaining 11 competitors are below the 6% threshold. Two parties of the former parliament, the Communists and the Liberals, so far managed 4,10% and 1.17% of the vote, respectively.
The turnout on February 24, at the close of the domestic voting, was slightly above 49%, with roughly 1.45 million voters participating.
These elections mark the first time that the Moldova elects its 101-seat Parliament based on a mixed system, with 50 MPs coming from a party-list proportional representation tier, and 51MPs from a majoritarian, first-past-the-post tier.
