Moldova’s governing pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has taken the lead in the parliamentary election with 46 percent of the votes, compared with 27 percent for the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc, with 90 percent of votes counted, according to the country’s electoral commission.

Sunday’s parliamentary election , which is viewed as a geopolitical choice between a path to the European Union or a drift back into Moscow’s fold, has been fraught with claims of Russian interference.

When polls closed at 9pm (18:00 GMT), the Central Electoral Commission reported that more than 1.59 million – about 51.9 percent of eligible voters – had cast their ballots, including 264,000 Moldovans in polling stations set up abroad. In the 2021 parliamentary election, turnout was just above 48 pe

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