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Chisinau - The Moldovan Central Elections Commission has finalized the count of votes cast in the parliament elections last Sunday, Dec. 30.

The voting outcomes were published on the Commission website on Thursday morning, Dec. 4 after 100 percent of ballots had been counted. According to the report, five political parties passed the 6 percent election threshold and won parliament seats. Their results are the following: the Party of Socialists gained 20.51 percent of the vote (327,910), the Liberal Democratic Party – 20.16 percent (322,188), the Party of Communists – 17.48 percent (279,372), the Democratic Party – 15.8 percent (252,489) and the Liberal Party – 9.67 percent (154,507).

After the redistribution of votes won by unsuccessful parties, five parties will have the following number of seats in the new parliament: the Party of Socialists – 25 seats, the Liberal Democratic Party – 23 seats, the Party of Communists – 21 seats, the Democratic Party – 19 seats, and the Liberal Party – 13 seats. The votes are divided by a special mathematical formula.

The parties which gained a significant number votes but still lost the elections are the Communist Reformist Party (a “clone” of the Party of Communists with a similar abbreviation of its name and similar symbols), which won 4.92 percent of the vote (78,719), and the Moldova’s Choice – Customs Union Bloc, which received 3.45 percent of the vote (55,089). A total of 1.74 percent of votes was cast for the Anti-Mafie movement, and 1.56 percent to the Liberal Reformist Party. The other parties gained less than 1 percent of the vote. The least successful parties were the Centrist Union of Moldova with 0.04 percent of the vote (609), and the Patriots of Moldova, and the Ecological Party, which won 0.09 percent of the vote each.

Oleg Brega was supported by 0.88 percent of voters (14,085), which was the best result amongst independent candidates. The other three independent candidates won less than a thousand votes each. One election bloc and four independent candidates participated in the elections.

The elections saw the biggest number of invalid ballots, 50,948, more than 3 percent. Most of these ballot papers were declared invalid because voters had voted for the Patria-Rodina party, which had been barred from the elections on the very last day before the elections. Party leader Renato Usatii called on his supporters to vote for the party as a form of protest against the authorities. However, only a small part of his supporters voted for Patria and the majority preferred to cast their votes in favor of the Party of Socialists.

The voter turnout stood at 1,466,997 (55.86 percent). Moldova had 2,798,108 registered voters and another 155,168 voted on additional lists. Ballots were cast by 71,635 voters at 95 polling stations abroad, a thousand less than in the 2010 elections, which witnessed the highest voter turnout outside the country in the Moldova’s entire electoral history.

The Central Elections Commission will submit final results of the parliament elections to the Constitutional Court on Friday. Contestants will have two days to challenge the election outcomes and demand a new count of votes. The president will sign a decree ordering the convocation of the first meeting of the new parliament within 30 days after the elections.