CHISINAU ¨C Moldova¡¯s three main pro-Europe parties appeared on Monday to be able to form a new coalition with most of the vote from an election on Sunday counted, despite the pro-Moscow Socialist Party taking first place.
With 87 percent of the vote counted, according to the election authorities, the three parties ¡ª the Liberal Democrats, the Liberals and the Democrats ¡ª had a combined vote of 44 percent ¡ª enough to win a majority in the 101-seat parliament.
This was in spite of the pro-Russia Socialist Party taking a surprise lead with 21.5 percent of the vote and the communists, who wish to revise part of a trade deal with the European Union, taking third place with 17.8 percent.
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