Moldova's president on Friday said he had concrete proof of Romanian involvement in anti-Communist riots this week that sparked a diplomatic crisis with Romania.
Communist President Vladimir Voronin said liberal opposition parties had spoken at the highest level with the Romanian embassy and Romanian "citizens and combat specialists" had taken part in the riots.
It was the latest verbal attack by the Moldovan authorities against neighbouring Romania.
"What we know already constitutes a base of proof in this sense," he said.
The Communists cemented their eight-year dominance of Moldovan politics in the weekend polls, gaining 60 of the 101 seats in the new parliament which will soon decide on a successor to Voronin.
But the results triggered major unrest as an anti-communist youth movement, supported by the opposition, took to the streets to denounce the elections as flawed.
Voronin, strongman since 2001 when the Moldovan Communists became the first communist party to win power in the former Soviet Union, earlier requested a recount in an apparent bid to restore confidence in his embattled leadership.
"I am convinced that a complete recount of votes will become a major argument for maintaining political stability, peace and mutual trust in Moldova," he said.
Dozens were wounded and almost 200 arrested after the riots that saw protestors storm parliament and hurl furniture onto the street below.
In stark contrast to the scenes of chaos this week, only a handful of protestors Friday responded to a new call by opposition youth groups to denounce the election.
After boasting of using restrained tactics in that protest, Voronin has vowed to clamp down hard against any future riots in Europe's poorest country.
In his new comments, Voronin accused the liberal opposition of initiating the riots, saying they had used students with the help of criminals to launch an attempted "street putsch".
"Only the extraordinary sang froid of the Moldovan authorities allowed thousands of young lives to be saved and return the political process to a relatively normal routine," he said.
There has been concern over the fate of those arrested after the demonstrations and Amnesty International has urged the government to distinguish between troublemakers and peaceful activists.
Youth opposition groups summoned supporters using telephone SMS text messages and social networking websites at the start of the week but the turnout exceeded their expectations and events rapidly swung out of control.
The established political opposition was also apparently caught out by the protests, acknowledging they had been established by youth groups and were taken aback by their magnitude.
Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported that on Wednesday morning a Russian plane arrived in Chisinau from Moscow carrying gas grenades that could be use by the police for crowd control.
However Moldovan interior ministry spokesman Alla Meleka denied the report, saying the authorities had sufficient means to preserve constitutional order in Moldova.
Moldova, Europe's poorest country and with a population of 4.3 million people, was part of Romania after World War I until it was annexed by the Soviet Union in World War II. Romanian is the official language.
Election results released Wednesday showed the Communists garnered 49.48 percent of the vote, gaining 60 parliament seats -- one less than the three-fifths required for the party to control the presidential election.
The new parliament will elect a successor to Voronin who has served the maximum two mandates allowed.
