Parallel counts of political parties show Mayor Mihai Chirica and Iasi County Council President Costel Alexe as winners in the local elections held on June 9 in Iasi municipality and the county.

Thus, after counting 90% of the votes, Mihai Chirica received 32.6% of the votes, followed by USR Senator Marius Bodea, ADU candidate, with 25.7% of the votes, MP Cosette Chichirău, with 14.5% of the votes, PSD leader of Iasi Municipality, Bogdan Balanișcu – 13.7% and MEP Tudor Ciuhodaru (AUR) – 9%.

For the presidency of the County Council, the partial results after counting 86% of the votes show that the current CJ president Costel Alexe has 34.3%, his main opponent Social Democrat Bogdan Cojocaru has 32.1%, Petru Movilă (PMP) – 13.3%, Marius Ostaficiuc (AUR) – 9.2%.

In Iasi county, the turnout for the local elections was 41.02%. In the municipality of Iasi, the turnout was 34.67%, i.e. 118,849 voters out of 322,580 people registered on the permanent lists, while 3,211 people voted on the supplementary lists.

Most voters are included in the 45-64% category, followed by people over 65 and the 35-44 category.

AGERPRES