Moldova opposition candidate Maia Sandu, who favours closer ties with the EU, promised to unite the country and tackle corruption as she looked on course to beat pro-Moscow incumbent Igor Dodon in a presidential run-off on Sunday, Reuters reported.

The leader of the Action and Solidarity Party, Maia Sandu won the first round of the presidential election in Moldova on Sunday. The pro-European centre-right candidate came out on top with 36.1% of the vote, announced Moldova’s Central Electoral Commission on Monday morning, with 99.81% of the ballots counted.

Moldova’s parties on Saturday agreed to form a government and appoint Maia Sandu, a former education minister and World Bank adviser, as prime minister with a mandate to curb the power of oligarchs in one of Europe’s poorest countries, news wires reported. “Injustice has come to an end today in Moldova,” Sandu said. “Today begins the process of the purification of Moldova.”