Preliminary results from Sunday's presidential runoff in Moldova shows Socialist Igor Dodon is the winner and Moldova's next president for the next four years, according to Moldovan media.
Dodon reportedly garnered 814,000 ballots, which is more than 50 percent of the valid ballots.
After the processing of 96.83 percent of the vote reports, Dodon is the winner, with 55.17 percent of the votes. His challenger Maia Sandu of the Action and Solidarity Party got 44.83 percent, according to rise.md.
Socialist Igor Dodon, 41, has been an MP since 2009. He was also prime minister and minister of the economy.
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics of the State Agrarian University and the Management Faculty of the Chisinau School of Economics.
In 2009, he won an MP seat on the tickets of the Communist Party of Moldova. In November 2011, he left the party to join the Socialists, whose national leader he became the same year.
Moldova's Publika public television broadcaster says Dodon ran against Dorin Chirtoaca in the 2011 local elections for the Chisinau mayor's office, losing the race with slightly over 49 percent. In 2012-2014 he organised periodic protests demanding Chirtoaca to resign.
In March 2012, Dodon's group voted Nicolae Timofti in the office of Moldova's president. Later on, Dodon said he regretted his vote for Timofti.
Dodon speaks Russian, English and French. He was born in Sadova, Calarasi district. He is married, with three children.
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