Elections afoot

Moldova (AP)

Moldova's interim president has dissolved parliament and said new elections will be held November 28. Mihai Ghimpu said the legislature was being dissolved because it had twice failed to elect a president. The November ballot will be the third election since April 2009, when riots broke out amid claims that the communists had rigged the vote. A pro-European alliance came to power after elections in July 2009, but political deadlock remained because parliament still failed to elect a head of state in the eastern European nation. A September 5 referendum would have instituted a popular election for the presidency, but it failed because only 30 per cent of the electorate voted, short of the required one-third.