Moldova EU vote too close to call with 98% counted

[BBC]

“We have to choose a European future for our country, for our children, our future – for geopolitics, for peace, that’s the most important,” a voter called Oksana told the BBC. “Because we are between Europe and Russian influence, and we have to choose what we want.”

At a polling station for residents of the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria – which is economically, politically and militarily supported by Russia – the BBC stumbled upon evidence of vote-buying.

A BBC producer heard a woman who had just dropped her ballot in the transparent box ask an election monitor where she would get paid.

Outside, we asked directly whether she had been offered cash to vote and she admitted it without qualms. She was angry that a man who had sent her to the polling station was no longer answering her calls. “He tricked me!” she said.

She would not reply when asked who she had voted for.

In September, Ilan Shor – the fugitive Moldovan businessman accused of funnelling large amounts of cash into the country from Russia – offered money to convince “as many people as possible” to vote No or to abstain in the EU referendum.

This week, Shor then made a video statement telling people to vote for “anyone but Sandu” in the presidential election.

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Publish date : 2024-10-21 13:23:00

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