LIVE TEXT General local elections. Statements after the closing of the polling stations
The polling stations have closed. By 21:00., 41.4 percent of voters cast their vote. Several candidates for the position of mayor of the capital made press statements after the end of the voting process.
Update 19:04. By 7:00 p.m., over 40 percent of people voted.
The President of the CEC, Angelica Caraman, mentioned that, at this time, out of the 898 localities in the country, in 9 of them we have a voter turnout below 25%. In the context, she recalled that the electoral law provides that if the condition of participation in the vote of one fourth of the number of people registered in the electoral lists is not met, the elections will not be declared valid.
Update 17:39 Over a million people have voted, which is almost 38%.
Update 16:37 Voter turnout exceeded 34%. Citizens aged between 56-65 continue to be the most active, and young people aged between 18 and 25 remain at the opposite pole. According to the Central Electoral Commission, the participation rate of women is over 55%, and of men about 44%.
Update 16:02 Prime Minister Dorin Recean together with his wife voted. "We are voting for the European future of the country".
Update 14:17 The voting turnout exceeded 34%, which means that the elections can be considered valid.
Update 13:17 Ruslan Codreanu, candidate of the "Ruslan Codreanu" Electoral Bloc for mayor of Chisinau, says that he voted today for Chisinau and for the people. He voted for a Chisinau where people are better educated, healthier and wealthier.
Update 13:11 Vasile Costiuc, the candidate of the Home Democracy Party for the capital's mayor's office, also voted with his wife.
Update 13:02 Adrian Albu, PSRM candidate for Chisinau City Hall: "We voted for a city where we are respected, a city where there is a plurality of opinions, a city that wants to develop.
Update 12:13 The Central Electoral Commission announces that by 12.00 over 500 thousand voters cast their votes, or over 18% of those expected at the polls today. The locality with the highest voter turnout is Pocrovca, Dondușeni district, where, so far, a rate of around 54 percent is recorded. The town with the lowest turnout turns out to be Salcia in the Taraclia district, where 0.18% of the voters went to the polls, said Angelica Caraman, president of the Central Electoral Commission.
Update 11:32 The president of the voting commission at a polling station in Grădiște village, Cimișlia district, died on the very day of the election. The information was confirmed for Radio Moldova by the spokeswoman of the General Police Inspectorate, Diana Fetco.
**Update 11:23 **So far, 14.66% of the total number of voters registered in the lists voted. The most active are citizens aged 56-65. At the opposite pole are people aged between 18-25.
Update 10:59 The candidate of the Party of Development and Consolidation of Moldova, for the position of mayor of the Municipality of Chisinau, Anatol Usatîi, voted for a sustainable future and for solving the problems in the city.
Update 10:40 The candidate of the "Renastere" Party for the position of General Mayor of the Municipality of Chisinau, Vasile Bolea voted. He said that he wants a positive change in the capital.
Update 10:38 10.70% of the total number of voters registered in the lists voted. The most active are citizens aged 56-65. At the opposite pole are people aged between 18-25.
Update 10:10 The further development of the municipality of Chisinau, various social projects, are the expectations of the candidate of the National Alternative Movement Party for the position of mayor of Chisinau, Ion Ceban. He said he voted for the city to become a modern capital.
Update 10:00 The candidate of the "PACE" for mayor of Chisinau, Constantin Butucel, could not exercise his right to vote at one of the voting stations in the Botanica sector, because it is less than three months since he has registered residence in the municipality of Chisinau.
Update 9:35 The candidate of the Common Action-Civic Congress party for the position of mayor of Chisinau, Mihail Poleanschi voted this morning. Mihail Poleanschi said that he voted for an honest team.
Update 9:30 The voter turnout at the country level is 4.81%. The most active are people aged between 56-65 .
Update 9:10 Promo-LEX: By 9:00, 141 incidents were reported by observers in the territory.
Update 8:49 The Action and Solidarity Party candidate Lilian Carp voted: "I voted for a more comfortable city, I voted for normality."
Update 8:10 CEC President Angelica Caraman said that at 7:00 a.m. all the polling stations in the country were opened, and in 2 localities of UTA Gagauzia there will be no elections for the position of mayor because only one candidate was registered against which the withdrawn stamp was applied. The President of the CEC mentioned that more than 2 million 700 citizens are registered in the electoral lists. The first preliminary results will be presented around 22:00.
General local elections are taking place today in the Republic of Moldova. At this time the polling stations open. Thus, citizens are expected at the polls to elect the 898 mayors and 11,058 local councilors throughout the country. The nearly 2,000 polling stations will be open until 9:00 p.m.
The November 5 ballot is the eighth since the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Moldova and is organized according to the new Electoral Code. In this election, 57 thousand 396 candidates for the position of mayor and councilor in local councils from 35 political parties and an electoral block, as well as independent candidates, were registered. Of the total number of candidates for mayor, about 70 percent are men and 30 percent are women.
The elections are conducted on the basis of universal, equal, direct, secret and freely expressed vote according to the constitutional provisions. The right to vote belongs to the citizens of the Republic of Moldova who have reached the age of 18, including on the day of the election, with the exception of those deprived of this right by court decision. Citizens of the Republic of Moldova who have reached the age of 18 have the right to be elected local councilors, and for the position of mayor – they should be 23 years old and have at least the mandatory general education, writes alegeri.md.
In total, 1,958 polling stations will be opened and more than 7,600,000 ballots have been printed.
Two days before the election, the Commission for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Moldova (CSE) ordered the cancellation of the registration of all candidates of the "Sansa" political party. The decision was taken in the context of the report presented by the Intelligence and Security Service regarding the involvement of the Russian Federation in the local elections by financing the criminal group led by Ilan Şor. Electoral offices of the polling stations stamped "Withdrawn" in all the ballot papers, in the right of all the electoral contestants nominated by the "Sansa" Party.
Today's general local elections will be monitored by more than 1,500 national and international observers. Also, the police took all necessary measures to ensure public order during the local general elections.
Thus, in every polling station open in the country there will be police officers, who will monitor and guarantee the smooth running of the electoral process. In order for the elections to be considered valid, no less than a quarter of the number of people registered in the electoral lists must participate in the constituency.
In a public address on November 3, President Maia Sandu urged everyone to vote.
*,,On Sunday, November 5, go to vote, all those born in the village and all those born in the city, and use the power of your vote for the future of Moldova, with all its beautiful localities".
For this year's general local elections, more than 154 million lei were allocated from the state budget.
