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Incumbent Maia Sandu won 55.35% of the vote in Moldova’s presidential election, preliminary final results show. Moldova’s election commission announced that the pro-EU president’s challenger, Moscow-backed Alexander Stoianoglo, received 44.65%. Stoianoglo’s party did not accept the result and looks set to try to change voting rules next time. Stoianoglo – who received the most votes cast in the country itself while Sandu benefited from the diaspora vote – is the people’s president, the socialists announced in the capital, Chișinău. However, Stoianoglo himself recognized the result and called f…

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