Moldovan presidential elections: Sandu wins the run-off, while Dodon faces a “checkmate“
Moldovan presidential elections: Sandu wins the run-off, while Dodon faces a “checkmate“

Author(s): Denis Cenuşă
Subject(s): Civil Society, Governance
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Moldova 2020 November-elections;
Summary/Abstract: The outcome of the second round of the presidential election on Sunday 14 November saw the victory of Maia Sandu as the 6 th president of Moldova, who is also the first female president of the country. More than 1.6 million voters have opted for a change of the president. The runoff attracted the highest number of voters in the country’s history since independence, both within the country and abroad – 1.650.131 and 260.079 voters respectively. Despite the pandemic, the turnout in the runoff was only about 1% lower than in the 2016 presidential elections - 53.3%. Thus, the former Prime Minister Maia Sandu has overcome both for the 2016 defeat in the previous presidential elections, and the 2019 no-confidence vote staged by the Socialists to end her short-lived government.

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