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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The referendum on the European Union not only showed a deep split in Moldovan society, but the unexpected turn that happened overnight in favour of European integration calls into question the referendum’s legitimacy. Opponents of European integration amounted to 55 percent, but there was a suspicious increase in supporters of EU membership, hinting at falsification in the vote count.
Although the referendum asked whether Moldova should pursue EU membership, in the last few hours of the vote, there was a rapid change, with Moldovans apparently choosing a European future. According to the results of 99.01 percent of ballots counted, 50.29 Moldovans voted “For,” while 49.71 percent voted “Against,” a difference of only 0.58 percent.
The referendum’s legitimacy was also questioned primarily due to the diaspora’s votes. This suggests that Moldovan embassies in the West inflated the number of votes, including at polling stations across the United States where there were no observers.
On October 20, Moldova held presidential elections and a referendum on European integration. The question was asked:
“Do you support changing the Constitution so that the Republic of Moldova can enter the European Union?”
Pro-Western President Sandu won the majority in the first round, but her vote percentage was lower than expected – 42.21 percent – so she will have to go to the second round of elections on November 3. Opponent Alexandr Stoianoglo won 26.15 percent of the vote.
What cannot be overlooked is that Sandu ensured little accountability at polling stations abroad. It was impossible to control the Moldovan diaspora’s voting in the West, while the Moldovan diaspora in Russia had limited voting rights.
Two hundred thirty-one polling stations were opened abroad in 37 countries, including 60 polling stations in Italy, where about 300,000 Moldovan citizens live. In France and Germany, with a Moldovan diaspora of 100,000 people each, 40 polling stations were opened, and in Great Britain, 17 were opened for 42,000 voters.
However, only two polling stations were opened in Russia, where about half a million Moldovans live. Moldova’s Foreign Ministry claimed there were “security reasons.” Russian media reported that only nine thousand ballots were prepared for the Moldovan diaspora in Russia; thus, most could not vote. The election and referendum results would have been evident if they had opened more polling stations in Russia.
This campaign exposes how systematically and brazenly the West holds Moldova in its grip to keep Sandu in power. In this context, the Moldovan elections have become another training session for the West in organising rigged elections.
At the same time, securing a huge advantage in favour of European integration was impossible because Moldova’s objective economic situation and inflation growth indicate that the course chosen earlier already shows its results – European integration does not bring appropriate benefits and bonuses to the country.
During the past decades, but especially since Sandu, Moldovan authorities have tried to suppress economic activity and cooperation with Moscow. In the last three years, exports to Russia have decreased by almost a third every year. Companies face obstacles in cooperation, and farmers are forced to cut down apple plantations simply because no one else in Europe needs those apples.
There are also gas and energy issues. To avoid importing gas from Russia, Moldovan authorities agreed to import through intermediaries at higher prices, which led to economic problems for companies.
Sandu, who has passports from Moldova and EU-member Romania, plans to continue European integration if she wins the second round of elections. Moldova began the long process of formal accession negotiations in June, and under Sandu, the country aims to join the EU by 2030. Relations with Moscow have soured since Sandu condemned Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, began advocating diversification of energy supplies, and continued to pursue a policy of distancing herself from Russia.
In principle, this referendum vote will not have any impact. In the second round of the election, Sandu will most likely win as she uses all bureaucratic administrative levers to ensure her victory and enjoys the support of European bureaucrats. For the grants Moldova’s current leadership receives from the EU, Sandu will continue the policies they are pursuing.
Before the election, the alternative candidate also said that he had a Romanian passport, so Moldova is in a surreal situation where no national political elite exists. There are two candidates for president, both citizens of an EU-member country. Next year’s parliamentary elections will be more significant for Moldova, but the current political campaign clearly characterises and reveals the very nature of the pro-Western political process that exists in the country.
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what kind of questions exactly ? that the west bribed comissions and sent 1 million ballots from abroad ? this is a fact, nothing to be questioned about it. i would have only one silly question. why russians didn’t the same thing and didn’t sent 2 millions ballots from moscow. the answer is simple. russians are stupid and putin is their utmost stupid and idiotic tzar. now he will cry as baby in the united nations.
that will be as good to him as a winter cloak for a dead man or wiper blades on a submarine.
‘snowden’ (the usurper) making as little sense as always. moldova sent 9000 ballots and russia should have sent back 2 millions ? perfectly believable if you are ‘snowden’ (the usurper), because all your beliefs are crappy.
what a moron you are. who said that moldova received 9k ballots from abroad ? maybe soros’s bribed clerks. russia was banned, they didn’t have the opportunity to supervise the referendum. if soros’s comission said anything, it was lie. now, let’s talk as adults. moldova will be pushed in war against transnistria and russia, from 3m moldovans, 1m will die. for nothing. fot putin’s inactivty. because he is the same moron as you.
desperately publishing bullcrap as soon as sf publishes to peddle your inane propaganda is laughable. you are making no sense and it shows. the rest of the world understand quite well how the west understand ‘democracy’. there are few people as stupid as you in fact, and you have to be fed intense levels of propaganda and repression to believe otherwise.
sums it up nicely and i do not normally agree with you.
excluding you last sentence.
if he cheats, the mainstream media of the west will use it to discrédit russian on international level. when they cheat, the mainstream media stay silent. it’s a war that russian can’t win. it’s probably better for him to stay out of that rigged game.
russia cannot win because it is constantly struggling with its own low self-esteem. like in ukraine. putin sent troops, but they were not ordered to shoot. no bombers, no artillery, nothing. they just came to kyiv as if it were a holiday. i don’t know what putin expected, but it cost russia 500k dead, and the war has been raging for 2.5 years in pro-russian territories, now destroyed to ashes. what an asshole putin is. i sincerely believe that he is a mossad agent. i have no other explanation.
there is maybe some part of truth in your comments but there is lot of things that we don’t know.
look, russian army is a joke. prygozhin was the only one russian commander meeting nato standards. he had results, so all other generals hated him, they threw obstacles in his way and subsequently, putin murdered him. they just don’t talk about it in russia. i’m not surprised that with such command, morale and motivation, the russian army is laughable even comparing to fighters in yemen and afghanistan
playing that rigged game is useless. russians in transnistry should dig huge tunnels everywhere full of atgm.
the governing bodies in moldova wanted to join the west at all costs, democracy be damned. so it is they who cheated. they were not going to accept cheating from russia to do the opposite. you have to be world class of stupid to believe otherwise.
samantha power and usaid. i remember when she was us un ambassador, back in 2014 and how ignorant, rude and vile she was to the late vitalie churking. usaid/ned and working hard in georgia, hungary and moldova, to create regime change, to keep her masters sweet. usaid – to create democratic and european republics (orwellian double speak), but, what has that got to do with the us?
in 2005 french people were asked to fully join the eu by accepting the eu constitution. they rejected it 55% said no…. the référendum was cancelled. they changed a couple of sentences in the eu constitution, called it tfue and all the traitons politicians accepted it in 2008 without any referendum. the people was never again asked in a referendum. eu is a dictatorship.
in geopolitics, nobody cares about the rules. only results counts. russia is the weakest, dumbest, laziest and naive country among superpowers so it will be eliminated. in fact they were already eliminated. russia is not a superpower anymore. moldova is just another example of former russian ally eaten by global cabal alive. and for free. it didn’t cost jeews anything. the same as armenia.
i remember, back in the 1972, when the uk joined the common market, purely for ‘free trade’. the ‘kiddie sniffer’ ted heath, was more than happy to sign us over, knowing perfectly well it was to lead to globalist totalitarian control and nought to do with ‘free trade’. funny how so many ‘kiddie sniffers’ end up as politicians, over in the west.
the netherlands also voted against it giving a resounding 2 out of 2 against. later there was a vote on a nice treaty which ireland rejected so they had to vote again to get the right result and then have their law changed to ditch the need for them to vote on any eu treaty in the future.
nothing to see here folks, voting and counting of votes in europe and usa always leads to the best result for the population, excuse me i mean war profiteers and banksters🤫
there’s never been one election or referendum imo that wasn’t rigged, one way or another ever
this election and referendum are completely rigged. sandu is jewish. to understand the path moldova is on, just look at how ukraine is doing after voting for jewish president zelensky. the ziomafia is trying to destroy moldova, just like they did to ukraine.
she’s a woman. women in politic are always followers never leaders. globalists trick them very easily to work against their real interests.
in their little mind : white man is bad because hé says inconvénient truths revealing how weak they are. to protect their fake statut and their short term win, they choose the lies and the entièr nation sinks in the abyss. thé goal of the globalists is reached.
the female of the species is more deadlier than the male – as an old 90s music track comes to mind. nuland, clinton, dalia grybauskaitė, merkel, von de lyon, baerbock, harris, etc, etc, etc. wef political graduates and what do they all have in common?
principalities of moldavia and wallachia were liberated from osmanian yoke by marshal suvorov, when yeketerina ii was the leader of russia. she wasn’t ethnic russian, but she founded novorossia as ancestry russian and greek/roman (like it was in the east roman empire) cultures. that’s why odessa, mariupol’, melitopol’, cherson, simferopol’, sevastopol’ and other cities have greek names. this is prolonging of the 3rd rome policy.
greater israel project. weren’t the fakes, with zero semitic dna, hoping to move back to ukraine and surrounding areas? can you imagine the problems that russia would have, having them as neighbours? they would find themselves in the same situation that palestine finds itself in.
remains a mystery how people like her still breath!
now she’s protected with all resources of western sodomites, because this is hired management like the clown of kiev or guaido. her boss is derek hogan, ex-ambassador in moldavia. now he’s chief of the balkans department in the state department and enemy of good people living there.
1. sandu is not supposed to win the 2nd round considering her result in first round. 2. the differential between moldovan expats in the west versus expats in the est being around 5% of moldovan population, there is no mathematical ground for the 13 last % of the votes to reverse the result of the referendum (mathematically quasi impossible, probability: 1 in a trillion)
usaid and $oro$ says you are wrong. they will get the result that they demand.
the total of candidates against sandu was 55%. way higher than sandu 44%. but if they rigged the referendum. they could rig the 2nd turn. hypocrites in the west have no limits! that’s why russia should disengage west completely!
aren’t they trying to pull the same script in the us? hoping to use foreign votes to rig it for kamala? anybody in the world, with no links to the state, can vote, with no proof of identity or links to the state. 2 million oversea votes, turned into 30 million. it is not how you vote, but, who counts the vote, that matters.
they already did it in 2020. now they need to do the same, but on a larger scale. no electronic voting, no foreign monitors, not checking personal identity, mass post and preliminary voting (watch video with carter) — they have all chances to “win”.
i just wonder why people who don’t live in their country should have a vote at all unless you are posted abroad because of work commitments.
oh dear, puppet sandu has gone the same way as puppet gweedo and puppet saakashvili. and the georgia regime change op is falling apart. never mind, the eu will find her a plum job in charge of bendy bananas or something.
just give the whole place to shlomo and kill 2 birds with one stone.