You're reading: RFE/RL: Protests expected after top court invalidates Moldovan mayoral elections

RFE/RL: Protests expected after top court invalidates Moldovan mayoral elections

Published June 26, 2018 at 11:26 am

People holds lit candles during a protest as thousands of Moldovans march downtown Chisinau on November 14, 2016 asking re-schedule of the poll and the dismissing of the Central Electoral Commission (C.E.C) as they accuse poorly organized presidential elections and vote frauds which lead to Igor Dodon's victory against Maia Sandu.

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Fresh protests are expected in Chisinau after Moldova’s Supreme Court on June 25 upheld a decision to invalidate the results of a mayoral election in the capital won by a pro-Western candidate.

Moldovans have been protesting daily in Chisinau since a court invalidated the results of the June 3 runoff election, citing violations of the country’s campaign laws by anticorruption activist and pro-EU politician Andrei Nastase as well as his rival, Ion Ceban.