BUCHAREST, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Moldova's rightist candidate Maia Sandu, who lost the presidential runoff, accused the Central Election Commission (CEC) of full complicity in legalizing the electoral fraud, in her post on a social networking site.
"The CEC cynically ignored tens of thousands of people who were unable to vote owing to the obstacles placed by the authorities," Sandu was quoted as saying by Moldova's IPN news agency on Saturday.
Sandu stressed that her party will challenge all the violations of the Constitution and the Election Code in ordinary courts of law and in the Constitutional Court.
The CEC on Friday validated the results of the presidential runoff on Nov. 13 and declared Socialist candidate Igor Dodon the election winner.
The decision to instate Dodon, who won the most votes in the poll, is to be sent to the Constitutional Court within the next three days.
The top court will have 10 days to confirm or reject the presidential elections' legality.
Sandu declared soon after the runoff that the elections were neither correct nor free, accusing that the foreign minister and the CEC chair are the main responsible for "the disaster" of insufficient polling stations and ballot papers due to which many citizens living abroad have failed to vote.
She vowed to protest the presidential runoff results in the Constitutional Court.
Moldova held the presidential runoff on Sunday between Socialist leader Dodon and the common right-wing candidate Sandu, as none of the nine candidates competing in the presidential race received an absolute majority of votes in the first round of direct presidential elections on Oct. 30.
The presidential race marked the first time in 16 years that the country elected its leader by national vote instead of having parliament select the head of state.
