The victory of the yes vote in the pro-EU referendum in Moldova was a mathematical victory, even if data from 19 seats and the electoral commission's response are still missing. This is what appears from the data relaunched by the website alegeri.md of the Adept Association for Participatory Democracy. Electoral Commission data was not accessible online for a few hours. With 2,200 of the 2,219 sections examined, Yes leads with 50.31% and 742,819 votes. “No” received 733,711 votes, or 49.69%. The choice of 2,423 voters is therefore missing, while the gap in favor of Yes is 9,108 votes.
The country also voted in favor of the presidential election, and with 98.4% of counties counted, outgoing pro-European centre-right President Maia Sandu leads strongly with 41.97%, but the election appears to be slipping in the first round.
He is likely to deal with Alexander Stoyangelo, who is backed by the Socialist Party, which is traditionally pro-Russian and trails with 26.31%. The other nine candidates are far away, with the exception of former Balti mayor Renato Usati, who received 13.74%, and is an open supporter of Russia. This is what the National Elections Commission came up with. Sandu's lead appears higher than expected in opinion polls the day before.
In Moldova, there was “unprecedented interference” from Russia before the vote yesterday. The country has been subjected to “malicious interference and manipulation of information”, “not in the last few weeks or days” and the EU has verified this “on the ground”. This was stated by EU foreign policy spokesman Peter Stano when asked about the result of the pro-EU referendum and presidential elections in Moldova, with the ruling of OSCE observers postponed until a later time to comment on the election results. Commission spokesman Eric Mamer emphasized: “We continue to support Moldova’s ambition to join the European Union.”
“We fought fairly and we won fairly,” Sandu commented, adding, “What happened yesterday, and also in recent years, is an attack on democracy. The bandits who want to return to power at any cost want to use democracy as a means to achieve justice.” Weakness.” As for the presidential elections, where Sandu is leading but will go into a runoff with Alexander Stoyangelo, “we still have a battle to fight.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to Sandu by “providing evidence” of his accusations of interference in the country’s elections, following accusations that “criminal groups” interfered in the referendum. “These are very serious accusations and the evidence must be shown to the public,” TASS quoted Peskov as saying.
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