The polling station in Tokyo, Japan, closed at 3pm Moldova’s time. Twenty-three persons voted there. Not long ago, the polling station also closed in China. At the same time, there were opened the polling stations in the eastern part of the north-American continent, all without incidents, the president of the Central Election Commission Dorin Cimil state in a press briefing, being quoted by IPN.
Dorin Cimil called on the diaspora to exercise the right to vote by strictly obeying the sanitary conduct norms in the countries of residence. There is crowdedness of some of the out-of-country polling stations, namely in Belgium, France, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania, Spain, Greece, Denmark, Portugal, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands.
The time limit for submitting applications for voting at the place of stay expired at 3pm. The assigned members of the electoral commission and accompanying persons will go equipped to the homes of applicants with the mobile ballot box, first to elderly persons and to persons with locomotor disabilities.
If voting at the place of stay is not possible, but the person has signs of disease, this will be able to vote at the polling station by being given priority way to the polling booth and having minimum contact with the members of the electoral commission. When the person leaves, the room will be disinfected.
Voter turnout at 3pm stood at about 29%, which is over 800,000 voters cast their ballots by then.
