Pro-Russian Dodon wins Moldova poll
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PRO-RUSSIAN candidate Igor Dodon yesterday emerged as winner of Moldova’s hotly disputed presidential runoff, branded an East-West tug-of-war.
With 99.9 percent of ballots counted, Socialist Party chief Dodon had 52.3 percent of the votes, according to the electoral commission, with pro-European rival Maia Sandu on 47.7 percent.
“We have won, everyone knows it,” Dodon told a press conference overnight.
But Sandu said yesterday she does not accept the outcome of the vote in the impoverished ex-Soviet country. “These elections were neither proper nor free,” she said at a press conference.
“We faced lies and manipulation, the use of dirty money, administrative resources and mass media against us.”
Some 1,000 people gathered on the central square of the capital Chisinau to protest against the result, a correspondent at the scene said.
The demonstrators decried the “rigged elections”, calling on the foreign minister and electoral commission leadership to resign over their failure to ensure that all eligible Moldovan nationals residing abroad could vote.
Protesters shouted “We need a European president!” and “Jail Dodon!” as police stood by.
The full results are expected to be out later this week.
Wedged between Ukraine and Romania, the tiny nation of 3.5 million people is caught in a political tug-of-war between Russia and the West.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow respected the results and congratulated the winner.
Dodon had come out top in the first round of voting on October 30 with 48 percent ahead of Sandu, a center-right former education minister who worked for the World Bank, with 38 percent.
Dodon — who served as economy minister between 2006 and 2009 — has called for deeper ties and boosting trade with Moscow.
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