"Published on Monday by the CEC, the election results restored Communists' optimism. A total of 46.10% of the vote cast for the Communist Party of Moldova means that the Communists may expect to get 57 parliament seats. Their rival - the Democratic Moldova bloc - may have 33 seats, and the Christian Democratic People's Party, 11 seats in a new parliament," he said, adding that to elect the speaker and approve a cabinet it is enough to have 52 seats in parliament.
"The Communist victory is massive," the academic noted. But, in his opinion, "there is one snag preventing them from enjoying its sweetness to the end."
To elect the president of Moldova, it is necessary to have 61 votes. This means that the Communists will have to look for 4 votes in the camp of recent opponents.
Laryushin believes that "the price for these votes may be equal to the speaker's post and perhaps even a higher post".
"For, if no president is elected following three attempts parliament, according to the constitution, must be dissolved," he remarked.
The expert drew attention to the fact that Moldova is a parliamentary republic. "In this situation the Communists may sacrifice the presidential post for the sake of preserving a balance of political forces. Well, then the speaker's post, under the law, will prove the main one in Moldova's power hierarchy," he emphasized.
Replying to the question if the opposition may attempt to challenge the results in street demonstrations, the agency's source emphasized that this is "practically unrealistic, because the opposition considers the results optimum for itself."
"And international monitors, to judge from their calm response and the pacified appearance of the ambassadors of the western countries present at Sunday's ceremony of announcing exit poll results, do not mean to say 'stop' to the events that occurred," the expert noted.
The Communist Party of Moldova confidently won the parliamentary elections, garnering 46.10% of the total number of votes after 100% of the ballot papers were counted.
As RIA Novosti was told at Moldova's CEC, the Communists are followed by the Democratic Moldova electoral bloc (28.41%), the Christian-Democratic People's Party (9.7%), the Patria Rodina electoral bloc (4.95%), the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (2.92%), the social-political movement Ravnopravie (2.89%), the Democratic-Christian Peasant's Party (1.38%), and the Party of Social-Economic Justice of Moldova (1.67%).
