It was not Dodon who lost, but Russia – Institute of CIS Countries
The West has been preparing an anti-Russian revenge in Moldova for five years, which was expressed in the convincing victory in the presidential elections of Romanian citizen Maia Sandu over Igor Dodon, on whom Moscow was counting.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, Ivan Skorikov, an expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, stated this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
According to him, the votes of Moldovan guest workers who went to the EU played an important role in Sandu’s victory.
“Preliminarily, 93 percent of Moldovans living in the West voted for Sandu. In Russia, only 10-15 thousand people voted. It is curious that in the West, in the European diaspora, the “non-standard electorate” voted – young, active people from 25 to 40 years old. That is, they were able to mobilize working youth and force them to vote for Sandu,” the political scientist said.
“The West has been preparing to win these elections for five whole years. In the end, it was not Igor Dodon who lost, but Russia. In our country, according to the Ambassador of Moldova to Russia, there are 436 thousand Moldovans. If Russia had provided them with a vote by opening additional points and conducting campaigning, the result would have been different.
But our polling stations operated in only 12 cities – 17 polling stations in total. Try again to get to this site... But in Europe they gave us lifts, campaigned, gave money... We don’t know what was going on there, there were no observers from Russia and Dodon,” says the expert.
He also explained exactly how, in his words, Russia underperformed.
“If Russia behaved as a full-fledged player in the post-Soviet space, specially trained people would go to construction sites and factories and convince them to pay their debt to the Motherland - a voice in the interests of Moldova and Russia. If only there was political will for this. It was in the West,” Skorikov concluded.
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