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Two candidates still attend the electoral race for the post of mayor-general of the Chisinau municipality: Valerii Klimenko, representative of the electoral bloc Patria-Rodina-Ravnopravye, and Zinaida Grecianii, representative of the Party of Moldovan Communists.

Eight out of ten candidates for the Chisinau mayor post have withdrawn from the electoral race. The candidate of the Democratic Party, Vladimir Guritenco, and independent bidder Mihai Severovan, withdrew the first. Dorin Chirtoaca, representative of the Liberal Party, independent candidate Dumitru Braghis, Gheorghe Susarenco, of the Christian Democratic People’s Party, Gheorghe Sima, of the Labour Union Patria-Rodina, Vladimir Garaba, of the Green Alliance Party, and independent candidate Iuliana Gorea-Costin withdrew from the electoral race on Monday, July 18, the deadline for withdrawal of candidates for the Chisinau mayor post.

The repeated elections will take place on July 24. Under the Election Code, at least one third of the total number of voters included in the electoral lists must attend the elections in order to validate the results. Only 27.05 percent of eligible citizens attended the July 10 early local scrutiny in Chisinau.