Elections in Moldova: Pro-Western parties are losing, despite administrative resources
Chisinau - Kyiv, November 30 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - The first results of the parliamentary elections held on Sunday are already being summed up in Moldova. So far, the conditionally pro-Russian Socialist Party and the Communist Party are in first place. In any case, according to the results of the vote count, in the capital - Chisinau - the pro-Western forces lost, despite the use of administrative resources by the authorities.
Told PolitNavigator about this Vladimir Bukarsky, head of the information and analytical center “Eurasia Inform”.
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“Voting day could not but pass without violations in conditions when the goal was to achieve the victory of pro-Western parties at any cost. The main and most outrageous fact is the disproportion in the sites opened abroad. Of the 95 foreign sites, only 5 were opened in Russia, where 70% of Moldovan labor migrants are permanently located. As a result, huge queues formed at the voting station in Moscow. Many people were unable to vote. In addition, the Central Election Commission prohibited sending additional voting ballots to Moscow. Now pro-Western media are disseminating information that allegedly paid provocateurs, organized almost by the FSB, have gathered in Moscow near the embassy.
The counting of votes began very late. In addition, it should be noted that exit polls were prohibited, which in itself is a gross violation of all democratic norms.
Let us note that in the morning the electronic registry failed, and many feared that this was done deliberately for the purpose of subsequent falsifications,” says the agency’s interlocutor.
“Most of the violations took place before voting day. The CEC did not notice the violations of the parties in power, primarily the Democratic Party, which conducted illegal campaigning on all TV channels belonging to its leader Vladimir Plahotniuc, from morning to evening.
On the other hand, on the last day of the campaign, the Central Election Commission completely unacceptablely removed the opposition party “PATRIA” from the race on trumped-up charges. This alone greatly undermines the democratic legitimacy of these elections.
Today, the electronic voter register, which we were told a lot about and presented as a success by the authorities and the Central Election Commission, broke down almost immediately. In the Russian Federation, due to the fault of the Moldovan government and the Central Election Commission, which opened only 5 polling stations in this huge country, where over half a million Moldovan citizens live and work, thousands of people were never able to vote. This is also happening for the first time.
It should be noted that in Italy, where there are much fewer Moldovans, 25 sites were opened. In Romania – 11. These are deliberate actions by the authorities to make it difficult for opposition-minded citizens to access the ballot boxes.
Observers today also noted cases of the so-called. voting carousel, where buses transported people from precinct to precinct where they voted repeatedly using absentee ballots. The vote count has not yet raised any concerns,” he told PolitNavigator. political scientist, former plenipotentiary representative of Moldova to the UN Alexey Tulbure.
Queue at a polling station for Moldovan citizens in St. Petersburg
Queue at the station in St. Petersburg
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