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Pro-Europe mayor wins Moldova capital runoff vote

29 June 2015, 12:03 CET
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(CHISINAU) - The incumbent pro-European Union mayor of the capital of Moldova won the runoff vote against a pro-Russian opponent, securing a third term in office, the country's election commission said Monday.

Results of Sunday's elections were split in 53.54% for Dorin Chirtoaca of the Liberal Party of Moldova and 46.46% for Russian-born Zinaida Greceanii from the Party of Socialists.

The vote went to a runoff when neither candidate secured over 50 percent of support on the June 14 first round of voting in the city of around 500,000.

"This is a very important victory that means the continuation of pro-European reforms in Chisinau and moving Moldova along the path of European integration," Chirtoaca said.

Pro-Russian candidates still secured seats in several key towns in the country, which borders Ukraine and Romania, and has Russian troops stationed in a breakaway region of Transdniestr.

Moldova, Europe's poorest country, last year signed an Association Agreement taking it closer to European Union membership despite opposition from former Soviet master Russia and from its pro-Russian politicians including the Communists.

Disagreement over a similar pact sparked the current crisis in neighbouring Ukraine, which has seen Russia accused of fuelling a bloody separatist conflict in the east of the ex-Soviet country.


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