Moldova goes to the polls

Initial results from parliamentary elections in Moldova suggest the Communist party is heading for an overwhelming victory.

The head of the electoral commission said it had taken about fifty-five per cent of votes already counted.

The Communists were the largest party in the outgoing parliament, which was dissolved after it failed three times to choose a head of state in December.

A BBC correspondent in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, says the Communists' leader, Vladimir Vororin, who has campaigned on falling living standards and the inability of other parties to work together, could now become president.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service