It’s just a shame! or Who decides the fate of Moldovans?

There is the president of Moldova, and there is a pro-Western ‘president of the diaspora’ — this election result was summed up by Moldovans themselves. In those days, the whole world witnessed a crime against the Moldovan people, who, as it turned out, no longer decides anything in its own country and who — as the West, along with the president who holds a Romanian passport, was convincing the world on November 3rd — does not seem to exist at all, with hundreds of thousands of citizens. They just were not allowed to vote.

In fraternal Belarus, Moldovans from Kursk and Belgorod regions, Kaliningrad, Moscow and Moscow Region voted in Minsk  BELTA

The Moldovan people deserves special mention. I admire Moldovan citizens who performed a real deed that Sunday, November 3rd: realising that Maia Sandu would not allow them to vote in Russia in the second round, people went to the polling stations in Minsk, Baku, Chișinău… Not without difficulties along the way, especially for Moldovans living in Kaliningrad who were going to vote in Moldova — Lithuanians did not let them through at the border. Other people recounted how they travelled to Russia through the Baltic States, and Latvian border guards threw away all the food, water, and cigarettes bought in Belarus. The 100km road through Latvia took three days due to queues and inspections. In addition, the polling stations in Moldova would suddenly be ‘mined’, then the Rîbnița — Rezina bridge, along which voters from Transnistria were going to vote, then the polling station for Transnistrians at the lyceum in Varnița. On the other side, 30 polling stations were opened for residents of the left bank, traffic on the bridge was blocked. These are just a few examples. Imagine how many citizens were actually detained to prevent them from voting! Stealing precious time from them.
...That Sunday, November 3rd, together with Belarusian Moldovans and Moldovans who came from Kursk and Belgorod regions, Kaliningrad, Moscow and Moscow Region, we were freezing in a queue at the Moldovan embassy in Minsk. It is there that Sandu allowed to open the only polling station in the whole country, allocating, as they say, two thousand ballots. “Are there any Moldovans from Kaliningrad?” I asked the voters in the queue, having heard the phrase: ‘Oh, it seems our Kaliningrad residents have arrived’. “We are all Moldovans here,” the woman smiled. She is a Moldovan from Minsk. Our locals did not mind getting a little cold because of the guests who arrived. On the contrary, they supported them. Volunteers treated them to tea and pies. Belarusians came up to cheer people up; we remember the attempts of Westerners to deprive us of our Motherland. We remember how Lithuanians and Latvians did not let the Moldovan children’s choir return home from Belarus after the tour.

Hundreds of people with their families came to vote, as if in the last battle for their Motherland. Some were in a good mood, whereas others lost all hope, realising the inevitable. You cannot envy the fate of the Moldovan people.

A group of Moldovans from Kaliningrad (Russia) have come to vote in the presidential election at the Moldovan Embassy
in Minsk, Belarus      Aleksandr Kushner

Judging by the way the second round was going, Moldova should have had a chance in the morning. Had the votes been counted honestly — even taking into account how many people were not allowed to vote. Sandu had no chance to win. Therefore, dirty tricks were used.
A few hours before the polls closed, she called on the diasporas to decide for the whole of Moldova, “Those who vote in the next few hours can decide who will be the president of the country.” In the following hours, as you understand and remember the first round, and the US elections, both the living and the dead were going to ‘vote’ in the USA and Canada. Subsequently, Moldova’s Central Election Commission (CEC) announced a certain ‘incident with the voter registration system’ — allegedly, it was subjected to a cyber attack. By the night, it became known that Alexandr Stoianoglo had won domestically with a preliminary result of 51.19 percent, while Sandu received 48.81. However, the alleged 300,000 who voted in the West did their job.
After night calculations, Sandu was made president (55.33 percent vs 44.67). According to the voting scenario in the referendum on European integration and following the example of the Americans. Left in the presidential chair, she declared that ‘Moldova was victorious’. No, it is the West.
The legitimacy of the lame duck and the ‘president of the diaspora’, as the Moldovans dubbed her, will be very weak, judging by the actual results.

“She has divided citizens into classes in a Nazi way,” people comment. “The highest grade is in the West, the second is in Moldova, the third is in Russia, the fourth is in Transnistria. Yet, even in Europe and North America, not as many people voted for her as the CEC drew. There are plenty of reasons not to recognise the election.”

It’s a shame, of course. The fate of Moldovans — the way they can live — is not decided by them, inside their country. It is decided for them by others, from the outside.
Zelensky has also congratulated Sandu... As they say, a ‘happy’ European journey!

By Lyudmila Gladkaya

Moldovans have come to cast their votes in the presidential election, Minsk           belta

‘President of emigration’

Maia Sandu has lost the election in Moldova, yet will become president allegedly at the expense of the foreign diaspora votes 

Not that the sad result of the second round of the election held in the republic on the Dniester banks came as a surprise. Just three weeks ago, when supporters of European integration, using the votes of the diaspora, managed to claw out a victory from those who want a normal balanced development of Moldova, it became clear that the West had seized Chișinău with an iron grip. ction results. Their leader, Igor Dodon, stressed that Sandu had lost the trust of citizens and became the ‘president of the diaspora’.
Alexandr Stoianoglo called on supporters to remain calm and unite to ‘put an end to the hatred and division imposed on us’. “There is no place for senseless conflicts in the future of our country, but there is a place for unity and mutual respect,” emphasised Stoianoglo.
At the same time, the ex-candidate stated that his team had collected information about violations and would publish it after processing. This election in Moldova will also be remembered for the dramatic division of the country, which creates the basis for the continuation of the confrontation and even for its aggravation. In Gagauzia, Sandu lost with a deafening crash, and even in her native Făleşti, Stoianoglo achieved a result of 61.8 percent.
The big question is whether the diaspora voted for Sandu with one accord. Thus, videos of half-empty polling stations in Italy raise suspicions, which are only reinforced by information about a mysterious ‘malfunction’ in the electoral system. It is quite possible that Sandu is not even the president of the diaspora, but a mere fraudster.
Sandu’s second term is fraught with existential risks for Moldova. Having retained power with the help of shameless cheating, the president will take revenge on the people who rejected her. Dark times are coming for Moldova, and Moldovans will need to muster up all their will and courage to survive the night over the Dniester.

By Anton Popov