As the ruling Pro-EU PAS party claimed victory in the Moldovan parliamentary elections, the conduct of the polls has been marred by allegations of rigging by pro-Russia opposition parties.
As per official stats, President Maia Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) received 50.2 per cent of the vote on Monday, which the opposition alleged was fraudulent and manipulated.
Former opposition lawmaker Marina Tauber said the election does not reflect the will of the people.
“This was the dirtiest campaign in the history of Moldova. What has happened in the elections is beyond explanation,” Tauber said after her party lost on Monday evening.
She claimed the result was “not real” and “not the will of the people”, and PAS was “celebrating the victory of shame”.
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A vocal critic of PAS, Tauber slammed the ruling party for opening just two polling stations in Moscow, despite having a massive diaspora in Russia.
“It is not normal. Everybody has the right to vote and should have the technical possibility to do it,” she said.
Meanwhile, former Moldovan president Igor Dodon, who leads the major opposition alliance, the Patriotic Bloc, accused Sandu’s government of “falsifying” the election.
In a social media post, he cited “hundreds of violations” of the law and said authorities blocked roads and bridges to prevent residents of Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria, from casting the ballot.
Political experts said the election win was a pivotal moment in Moldovan history that was going to set the course for the country’s future alignment, especially at a time when Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a war.
Both Russia and the EU wanted to gain access and control over the political affairs of the country by helping their allies to secure a win in the elections.
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