Re-election of leader of Moldova ruling party marred by scandal
First deputy speaker Serafim Urechean has been re-elected leader of the Our Moldova Alliance, one of the four member parties of the ruling Alliance for European Integration, the Moldovan news agency Infotag reported on 14 December.
Urechean was supported by 328 out of the 439 delegates who participated in the party's eighth congress.
The former first deputy leader of the party, Veaceslav Untila, who also ran for the post of party chairman, quit the congress together with about 100 supporters, protesting against the refusal to make the vote secret.
Untila said later that he would appeal against the congress decision. According to him, the scandal which erupted during the congress was planned beforehand in order to commit violations during the vote count. Untila and his supporters said they would remain members of the Our Moldova Alliance and "would try to reform it".
The congress also elected the first deputy prime minister in charge of reint! egration issues, Victor Osipov, as first deputy leader of the Our Moldova Alliance, Infotag added.
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