Several Romanian parties claim vote-counting irregularities during Romanian presidential election in Moldova

The National Liberal Party (PNL), the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), the Greater Romania Party (PRM), and the Green Party said there were numerous vote-counting irregularities abroad during the gathering of the results for the Romanian presidential election. The parties said that one of the countries in which problems appeared was Moldova.

Romanians in the diaspora voted overwhelmingly in favor of incumbent Traian Basescu, who received about 95 percent of the vote of Romanians living in Moldova.

Mr. Basescu was declared the winner of the poll with a very narrow margin, but the opposition Social Democrats are contesting the results of the election.

The accusations made by the four parties - which were not supporters of Mr. Basescu's - are being investigated.