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A tight race is shaping up in the presidential run-off election in Moldova as electoral officials count votes after a tense voting day punctuated by allegations of interference. With more than two-thirds of the votes counted, challenger Alexandr Stoianoglo is leading with around 52% – ahead of the pro-European incumbent Maia Sandu, the election commission said late Sunday. A former attorney general who is considered the pro-Russian candidate Stoianoglo, 57, stood for the Party of Socialists of the Moscow-friendly former president Igor Dodon. According to the election commission, Sandu received…

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