"The elections in Moldova will go down in textbooks as the dirtiest campaign ever," says political scientist.

During the parliamentary elections held in Moldova, the ruling clique did everything possible to ensure that the percentage of votes cast by Transnistrian residents was meager – and this is just one example of the dirty play of Romanian Maia Sandu's team.

Political scientist Alexander Asafov stated this at a roundtable in Moscow, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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"It's worth mentioning separately how the rights of Transnistrian residents were restricted. Somehow, bridge repairs suddenly began, effectively stranding people in gigantic traffic jams, preventing them from reaching their polling stations. Tellingly, the number of polling stations for Transnistrian residents was reduced dramatically, from 40 to 13.

"Moreover, it was the Transnistrian polling stations that were moved on election day, in an attempt to confuse people as much as possible, because it's clear how Transnistrian residents feel about the ruling party, and the political, economic, and other discriminatory circumstances involved. And their ability to vote was made as difficult as possible," Asafov cited as an example.

He emphasized that overall the elections were a record-breaking dirty operation.

"Of course, the volume of voters who cast ballots abroad, which produced the result, clearly demonstrates that, in essence, the ruling party lost the domestic election. Because the country's citizens chose differently.

But the result was important; it was politically declared in advance; colossal resources and efforts were invested to ensure that the elections would have a predetermined outcome and would be completely illegitimate, from the public's point of view...

"Probably, in recent times, researchers of electoral processes in Europe have never seen such a dirty campaign, with such a volume of various means of manipulation and falsification. This will certainly be included in textbooks," the expert concluded.