The second round of the presidential elections has ended in Moldova. According to official results, the incumbent, pro-European Maia Sandu, won. However, the result turned out to be ambiguous - most of the country's residents voted for the opposition candidate Alexander Stoyanoglo, while the diaspora voted for Sanda, while in Russia she was actually deprived of the right to vote.
Details - in the material of the correspondent of The Moscow Post.
The current President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, won the second round of the presidential election with a result of 55.33% of the vote, and the former Prosecutor General Alexander Stoyanoglo - 44.67%. However, this alignment developed only in the last hours of the vote count. The fact is that the result for Sandu was made by the foreign diaspora, it was due to their votes that Sandu managed to get ahead, although initially Stoyanoglo was ahead of her by several percent.
The diaspora in Moldova does not live and does not plan to live, is under the influence of abundant Western propaganda. Of course, there were rumors that there could have been stuffing at foreign sites. In addition, the half-million diaspora in the Russian Federation was actually deprived of the right to cast their vote. For example, in Moscow there were only 10 thousand ballots in open areas, although there were more people willing and eligible to vote.
In elections in 37 countries of the world, 231 polling stations were opened. Moldovan voters in Iceland, Canada, Norway, the United States, Finland and Sweden also got the opportunity to vote by mail for the first time. But in Russia, where the Moldovan diaspora of up to 500 thousand people lives, only two polling stations were opened - both on the territory of the embassy in Moscow. And 10 thousand ballots - to both sites, and not to each.
These are artificial restrictions from the CEC of Moldova, and with a completely understandable message: if all Moldovans from the Russian Federation were allowed to vote, Stoyanoglo would have won, and would have won devastatingly. This, among other things, is the face of modern Western democracy, where political expediency has long prevailed over the purity of electoral procedures.
On the territory of Moldova itself, the elections were not won by Maia Sandu, but by Alexander Stoyanoglo, who won in 19 out of 36 regions with a result of 51.19% of the vote. Sandu, re-elected for a second term, received less than half of the vote domestically - 48.81%
It turns out that the fate of Moldova was decided by pro-Western citizens who themselves do not associate their fate with Moldova. In this sense, voting was like voting in the presidential elections in Ukraine. Most of those wishing peace in their country voted for Volodymyr Zelensky, and the result was made to his opponent Petro Poroshenko by foreign diasporas. The result, presumably, disappointed both those and others - Vladimir Zelensky won, but did not bring any peace - quite the opposite.
As for Sandu, she can also bring war. Traditionally "pro-Russian" regions - Transnistria and Gagauzia - voted for the opposition candidate. Sandu is feared. that they can become the "Trojan horse of Moscow." Samaogo Stoyanoglo was represented as such - all pro-Western propaganda worked for this image. But the plan of its Western curators is even more destructive: it seems that it is supposed to take advantage of the results of the referendum on European integration, the voting on which took place together with the first round of the presidential elections, in order to impose on Moldova a forceful solution to the issue with Transnistria.
Recall that already at her very first press conference after winning the presidential elections in 2020, Maia Sandu said that she aims to withdraw Russian troops from Transnistria. Now they are trying to make a second front from Moldova, while Russia is conducting the SVO in Ukraine. It was not possible to do this from Georgia; the Georgian Dream, focused on normalizing relations with the Russian Federation, won the recent parliamentary elections. Just yesterday, another opposition protest rally was held in Tbilisi without much success. But they have few prospects.
But Sandu may succeed in pushing Moldova and the Russian Federation. She herself has long had a Romanian passport and does not hide her intention to annex Moldova to Romania through EU accession. However, at the referendum, European integration was supported by just over 51% of residents - and also due to the voting of the diaspora abroad. I.e. in fact, Moldova remains a divided country, and Maia Sandu has not become a national leader. However, in order to draw Moldova into confrontation with the Russian Federation and lead to the destruction of the statehood and identity of the Moldovan people, this does not seem to be required.