Chisinau’s suburbs voted massively for the Party of Communists (PCRM) in elections for the Municipal Council, and less for the ruling party’s candidate for Mayor General, Veaceslav Iordan. With 99% of the ballots being counted, PCRM received in the municipality of Chisinau as many as 63,275 votes, or 30.1% of the total, marking a 3% increase compared with the previous preliminary results that excluded a large part of information from the polling stations in the suburban localities. The “Moldova Noastra” Alliance Party polled 11.86% of the vote, PD – 6.69%, PPCD – 6.61%, PSD – 3.32%, PL – 17.87%, PSL – 1.47%, PNL – 2.84%, the Electoral Bloc “Patria-Rodina-Ravnopravie” – 3.26%, PDS – 5.19%. Based on the recent poll results, Veaceslav Iordan’s share of votes decreased by 0.33%. He was voted by 27.9% of the voters in the municipality. The PL candidate for Mayor General Dorin Chirtoaca polled 24.32%, registering a slight increase by 0.66% as against the previous results. In the 25 May 2003 elections, the ruling party received 41.9% of the votes cast for councillors, while the PCRM candidate for mayor at that time, Vasile Zgardan, garnered in the first round 46.8% of the vote.