Communists win parliamentary elections in Moldova, but democrats have most MPs

The Moldovan Communist Party has won sunday's parliamentary election. The Central Electoral Committee still has 2,5% of the votes to count, but the number of Parliament Members that each party will have is becoming fairly clear.

Vladimir Voronin's Communist Party will have around 40% of the 101 Parliament seats, 43. However, the three parties that comprised the Alliance for European Integration, The Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), The Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) and the Liberal Party (PL), have between them 58 seats and will be able to dominate the Parliament.

The true problem arises from the fact that in Moldova, a parliamentary republic with the head of state elected by parliamentary vote, there has to be a majority of 61 votes in order to elect a new president.

Sunday's election for the representative body was held as result of the Parliament being dissolved in September. The communist Vladimir Voronin, elected as president in 2009, resigned in September of that year. Mihai Ghimpu, of the pro-European alliance, has acted as president as of that moment.

Andrei Craciun