Moldova’s pro-Western governing party has decisively won a parliamentary election plagued by claims of Russian interference and was widely seen as a definitive choice between staying in Europe’s orbit or lurching into Moscow’s.

With nearly all polling station reports counted on Monday, electoral data showed the pro-European Union Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) had 50.2 percent of the vote, while the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc had 24.2 percent, according to The Associated Press news agency. The Russia-friendly Alternativa Bloc came third, followed by the populist Our Party.

The pivotal ballot in the nation’s future on Sunday pitted the governing pro-European PAS against several Russia-friendly opponents.

Leading up to the vote, Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean warne

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