Sandu won 42.16% of the vote, which means a second round of elections on November 3, in which she will have to compete with the pro-Russian former Prosecutor General Alexander Stojanoglu, who was voted for by 26.19% of voters in the first round, according to preliminary results after 98.87% of the votes were counted. , said CVK.
In the referendum, in which the voters had to answer the question whether joining the European Union (EU) should be fixed in the constitution as a strategic goal of the country, preliminary data show that 50.16% of the voters voted for the “yes” option, while another 49.84% voted for “no” “, announced the CVK. Since more than 33% of voters went to the polls, the Central Election Commission’s report on the conduct of the election process must be submitted to the Constitutional Court, which will decide within ten days whether to approve the results.
If the results are confirmed, the law will be considered adopted from the day of the referendum and will be published in a special edition of the Official Gazette.
In total, 1,562,238 citizens took part in the elections, which is 51.67% of the total number of eligible citizens included in the electoral rolls. More than 240,000 voters voted in the diaspora.
Addressing his supporters, Sandu accused criminal groups of trying to influence the outcome of the election and referendum on Monday night.
“Criminal groups working together with foreign forces hostile to our national interests have attacked our country with tens of millions of euros, lies and propaganda, using the most shameful means to keep our citizens and our country in ignorance and instability,” the president said.
“We have clear evidence that the goal of these criminal groups was to buy 300,000 votes, a fraud of an unprecedented scale,” Sandu added. “Their goal was to undermine the democratic process,” the president said.