#ALEGEPUBLIKA. Moldova holds round two of general local elections
The second round of local elections takes place on Sunday, November 3, in the 384 localities of Moldova, where no candidate for mayor has obtained more than half of the valid votes.
The voting procedure started at 07:00 and ends at 21:00.
According to the Central Electoral Commission, 180 candidates are from the Socialist Party, the Democratic Party has 175 representatives. The bloc ACUM has 167 candidates.
For the Chisinau mayoralty, Ion Ceban, the Socialist candidate will fight against Andrei Nastase, the candidate of bloc ACUM in the round two.
After the second round of election, the candidate who will gain the most votes will win the race for Chisinau mayoralty regardless of the number of voters who participate in the poll.
In case they acquire the equal votes in the second round, the winner who picked up more votes in the first round will be considered the winner.
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