Moldova...

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Votes again today, for the third time since April 2009.

In April 2009, the Communists came within one vote of getting the three-fifths majority needed to elect the President; but the liberal opposition united to block this and since the Constitution says that if the Parliament fails to elect the President twice in a row, a new election is held.

In July 2009, the Communists lost 12 seats and gave the liberal opposition a 53-48 majority but not a three-fifths majority. While they became the de-facto interim government, the Communists blocked two attempts - again - to elect a President. Since two early elections in the same year are unconstitutional, new elections were to be held this year.

In September 2010, a referendum to allow for the election of the President by popular vote (as it was before 2000) failed because turnout (30.79%) was below the 33% threshold. The Communists had called for a boycott of the referendum (in which 88% of those who voted backed the amendment).

The threshold has been lowered again, from 5% to 4%.

Exit poll rumours sez Commies 32%, PLDM 30%, PL 17%, PD 14%, AMN 5% - which would give the liberals 68 seats overall according to my quick calculations.

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Huge liberal victory.

exit polls would say:
PLDM-34,4%, PCRM-26%, PD-15,1%, PL-15,6%, AMN-1%
another says: PCRM: 33,9%, PLDM: 32,2%, PD: 14%, PL: 10%

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Great argument against turnout thresholds on referendums.

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45% REPORTING
PCRM 41.8% - 45
PLDM 27.4% - 30
DPM 13.4% - 16
PL 8.4% - 10

Would mean 56-45 for the government, which would mean still no three-fifths majority.

[Insula Dei]

Those exit polls were way off.

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95% counted

PCRM 40.51% - 44
PLDM 28.66% - 31
DPM 12.9% - 15
PL 9.33% - 11

Deadlock continues. This is truly awful.

[Хahar 🤔]

What I don't understand is what the Commies gain from the deadlock.

[GMantis]

Map of the results: red for the Communist, Blue for the "pro-European" coalition.

So it seems that the Communist party is most popular with minorities and people living near Transnistria. Not surprising, really.

[Kevinstat]

Weren't the Communists in Moldova pro-western (as was a neo-fascist party) back in... 2005? (the last election before the recent string of elections), with the centrist party or group being pro-Russian?  I remember reading that on this forum at one time.