Voter turnout overcomes validation threshold
By 15:00, 1,135,562 voters cast their ballots in the ongoing parliamentary elections. At a voter turnout of 41.87%, the poll may be deemed valid as the validation threshold is fixed at one-third of the total voters, Info-Prim Neo reports.
Voters in Basarabeasca district remain to be the mots active, with a turnout of 59.19%. Other high rates are in Donduseni, 52%, and Soldanesti, 49.31%.
The voter turnout in the Gagauz Autonomy was 36.73%.
In Chisinau municipality 216, 539 6 voters, or 34.61% showed up at the polling stations and in Balti 41,556 voters, 38.48%.
The voter turnout in previous elections at 15:00 stood at 40.9% on 29 July 2009 and 43% on 5 April 2009.