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Republic of Moldova presidential election: Opposition candidate leads over incumbent

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The unexpected result puts Maia Sandu ahead in the first round of voting for president of the Republic of Moldova, writes Cristian Gherasim.

She leads over the incumbent president Igor Dodon, after initially finishing second. The score changed significantly in her favor after the Central Electoral Commission began counting the results of the diaspora vote.

Maia Sandu now has 36.15% of the vote after initially trailing behind Dodon who got 32.62%, the final count says.

The second round of voting will see Maia Sandu and Igor Dodon (pictured) facing each other on 15 November. The diaspora vote which turned the score in favor of Sandu gives new hopes to the pro-Europe opposition candidate to win the presidency.

In the 2016 presidential elections the second round also saw Igor Dodon and Maia Sandu facing each other with Sandu failing then to become president of the Republic of Moldova.

Almost 43% of registered voters took part in this Sunday’s (1 November) elections. A greater number are expected to go to the ballots in the second round of voting, two weeks from now.

Sunday's election, which took place in the midst of a pandemic and under unfavorable weather conditions, discouraged many voters from going to the polls. The second is expected to mobilize more young people who are expected to vote for Sandu and who now came to the polls in small numbers. The opposition candidate also hopes for a further mobilization of the diaspora votes to play in her favour as well.

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The boost her chances of becoming president of the Republic of Moldova, electoral arithmetic shows that Sandu could get a big share of the other candidates votes as well who did not qualify to enter the second round.

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