A national security adviser to the country's president says a Russian-backed oligarch has sought to buy votes to swing the results of an election.
The pro-EU Moldova n official says a pro- Russia oligarch is paying people to vote against the country's incumbent president.A national security advisor of Moldova 's pro-Europe president, Maia Sandu , says the country is seeing "massive interference in our electoral process".What's next?abc.net.
Ms Sandu, who began talks with the European Union about joining the bloc this year, is facing off against Alexandr Stoianoglo, who is backed by the traditionally pro-Russian Socialist Party.The future of Moldova, a poor agricultural nation of fewer than 3 million people, has been in the spotlight since Russia began its full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in 2022.
The Moldovan government had previously accused oligarch Ilan Shor of spending millions of dollars to pay constituents to vote against Ms Sandu, an allegation he denies. Ms Sandu previously alleged that Mr Shor had attempted to buy 300,000 votes, representing 10 per cent of Moldova's population, during the first round of presidential elections on October 20., a run-off election was scheduled for November 3.In his post on X, Mr Secrieru also detailed allegations that residents of Transnistria, a pro-Russia breakaway region of Moldova where Russian troops are stationed as peacekeepers, are being transported to vote in the country.
He said people had also been brought by organised group transport from Russia and taken by bus and on large charter flights to Moldovan polling stations abroad in Baku, Istanbul and Minsk.
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