Diaspora vote explains the unusually high turnout among young and relatively young people at recent 2020 presidential elections - ȚURCANU, Mihai (IDIS VIITORUL Institutul pentru Dezoltare şi Initiative Sociale, 2020)
About 373,398 people aged between 18 and 35 (25.69% of the total of 1,453,013 participants in Moldova) participated in the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019; in the local elections in October-November 2019, this figure fell to 277,669 (or 23.43% of the total of 1,184,779); in the first round of the last presidential election, 367,058 young people participated (or 26.82% of the total of 1,368,516), and in the second round – 469,603 young people, which represents about 28.46% of the total of 1,650,131 participants. That latter result could be achieved primarily due to the mobilization of young people abroad