Moldova just had elections and a referendum amid alleged russian atempts to influence the outcome...
In one place a woman voted the asked an election monitor when she was going to be paid....
I'd heard of vote buying (you take a picture of your ballot as proof) in both russia and romania (as well as ways of getting around it with pieces of black string) so it's not surprising here as well.
Nonetheless the russia-favored options (esp referendum about theEU) narrowly failed.
Apparently a decisive factor in the latter were votes from the diaspora (mostly in the EU) and very strongly in favor of Moldova being headed in that direction.
x.com/sarahrainsford/status/1848306963647451616
In one place a woman voted the asked an election monitor when she was going to be paid....
I'd heard of vote buying (you take a picture of your ballot as proof) in both russia and romania (as well as ways of getting around it with pieces of black string) so it's not surprising here as well.
Nonetheless the russia-favored options (esp referendum about theEU) narrowly failed.
Apparently a decisive factor in the latter were votes from the diaspora (mostly in the EU) and very strongly in favor of Moldova being headed in that direction.
x.com/sarahrainsford/status/1848306963647451616