According to preliminary data, victory on elections of the mayor of Kishinev was gained by the candidate of the Communist Party Igor Dodon. By results of processing of 99 percent of bulletins Dodon received 52 percent of votes. Its main contender, candidate from Liberal Party Dorin Chirtoaka who is the current mayor of the Moldavian capital was supported by 43 percent of voters.
Valentin Bulig representing Democratic Party received two percent of votes. Other candidates failed to overcome one-percentage mark.
At president Voronin Igor Dodon headed the Ministry of Economics and was the vice-premier of the government.
According to preliminary data, the communists got 49,9 percent of votes on the elections in the Kishinev municipal council. Liberal Party which got about 29,8 percent follows them, Liberally-Democratic Party had 12,8 percent and Democratic Party - about 2,7 percent of votes.
"Analytics consider elections of the mayor of Kishinev the main rate in local elections as the choice of citizens of Kishinev in many respects will define a lay of political forces in Moldova. Thus, victory of the operating mayor of Kishinev liberal Dorin Chirtoaka on elections in Kishinev in 2007 gave rise to anti-Communistic tendency as a whole about the country", - Radio Freedom informs.
"Communists in Kishinev are traditionally less popular, than on the average about the country", - Radio Freedom considers.
As we see, the forecast hasn't proved to be right and communists though being "less popular" won confident victory. What could be said about other regions? Local elections on all territory of Moldova passed on June, 5th. Inhabitants of the country chose 898 heads of cities and villages and 11740 deputies of local parliaments.