Maia Sandu said she would be president for all, after a run-off against a rival backed by a pro-Russian party.

With most votes counted Sandu had won 55%, and in a late-night speech she promised to be president for all Moldovans.

Her rival Alexandr Stoianoglo, who was backed by the pro-Russian Party of Socialists, had called for a closer relationship with Moscow.

During the day the president’s national security adviser said there had been “massive interference” from Russia in Moldova’s electoral process that had “high potential to distort the outcome”.

Russia had already denied meddling in the vote, which came a week after another key Eastern European election in Georgia, whose president said it had been a “Russian special operation”.

  • Cătă@libranet.de
    15·
    21 days ago

    @0x815 the situation was simply insane, with clear voter fraud schemes, election tourism and bomb threats across polling stations in Europe, which were meant to disrupt the voting process. However they failed to disrupt it.

    After Sandu’s last term, I expect the country to be firmly onto a European path and pass more much-needed reforms on it’s way to EU. Hope she and her government will not take too much time like it kinda did in her 1st term imo.