CHISINAU, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Moldova's Constitutional Court decided on Sunday that the votes of the country's parliamentary elections held on April 5 are to be recounted.

    "The Central Election Commission has nine days to recount the votes," said Dumitru Pulbere, chairman of the court, adding that "the Constitutional Court approved the decision unanimously and it is definitive."

    Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin asked the Constitutional Court on Friday to allow the vote recount, saying that he submitted the demarche as leader of the winning Party of Communists, in order to create fundamental conditions for a stable functioning of the new-elected parliament.

    He underlines that even though the elections resulted in an indubitable victory of the communists and the entire election was highly appreciated by the observers of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), those from the European Parliament, the European Council and the Commonwealth of the Independent States, the three opposition leaders have initiated an unprecedented attack towards the democratic elections.

    Voronin is firmly confident that the integral recounting of the votes is going to be an important argument to establish political stability, peace and mutual confidence in Moldova. The violent protests broke out after the Central Election Commission announced Monday that the ruling Communist party won a landslide victory in the April 5 parliamentary elections. The opposition claimed the vote was rigged and protesters stormed the parliament and the presidential building on Tuesday.