Russia summoned Moldova’s ambassador to complain about “discrimination” against its election observers.
The Russian Foreign Ministry complained that before the first round of voting in Moldova, the country’s authorities “unreasonably” refused accreditation to five observers from Russia. And before the second round, at the Chisinau airport, three Russian members of the mission of the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights were denied entry into Moldova.
Before this, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Maia Sandu, who won the elections, “is not the president of her country,” because the majority of Moldovan citizens did not seem to vote for her.
In response to these reproaches, the press secretary of the Moldovan government, Daniel Vode, invited the Russian authorities to look at themselves in the mirror.
For years, Russia has actively intervened and directed resources toward disinformation and manipulation of public opinion in Moldova. Such statements are hypocritical and an attempt to destabilize democracy in our country in full view of the whole world,” Vode said.
Socialists of Moldova will challenge the results of the presidential elections in the Central Election Commission and the Constitutional Court.
PSRM leader Igor Dodon, the pro-Russian party that supported Alexandru Stoianoglo in the presidential race, announced that his party will appeal the election results to the Constitutional Court and the Central Election Commission. He claims that “Maia Sandu won only in numbers and only with the support of foreign business.”
The Socialist candidate, Alexandru Stoianoglo, is the president elected by the majority of citizens living here at home in the Republic of Moldova. “He is the president elected in the country,” Dodon said.
He said that Sandu won only with support from abroad. She is the chosen one of the diaspora, who was rejected by the citizens who lived for four years directly under her government, who suffered under her government.
Source: Racurs
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