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“Democracy” in Moldova
Yesterday's election and referendum in Moldova again demonstrate how little respect the official 'West' has for the holy grail called 'democracy'.
Moldova backs joining EU by razor-thin margin as president condemns ‘assault’ on democracy – CNN
Moldovans have voted by the thinnest of margins in favor of joining the European Union, near-complete results showed Monday, as President Maia Sandu condemned an “unprecedented assault” by foreign actors on the country’s democracy.
With more than 99% of votes counted, 50.4% had voted “yes” in the pivotal referendum on whether to enshrine in the country’s constitution a path towards the EU, according to the Central Election Commission.
In 1990 Moldovia had 4.5 million inhabitants. This is down to 2.5. to 3 million today, of which nearly a million are living abroad.
Abroad is also where a real vote on a referendum would be decided. And abroad is where the manipulation of yesterday's vote took place.
These were the result before the votes of those who live abroad were counted in:
Europe Elects @EuropeElects – 5:50 UTC · Oct 21, 2024
Moldova, EU membership referendum:
98.8% counted
The difference is for 744 votes for In favor
Against: 50%
In favor: 50%
Former British ambassador Craig Murray watched the vote:
Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg – 14:39 UTC · Oct 21, 2024
Moldova's rigged EU referendum "voted in favour" of joining the EU by 50.4% to 49.6%.
No led until the last minute when 180,000 votes from Moldovans living in the EU were added in at a claimed 90% Yes.
While allegedly only 5% of the 300,000 Moldovans living in Russia voted!
Why didn't more of those Moldovans who are living in Russia go to vote? The Russian Ambassador in Vienna explains:
Mikhail Ulyanov @Amb_Ulyanov – 14:00 UTC · Oct 21, 2024
Moldovan authorities opened only two polling stations in Moscow for 400,000 Moldovan citizens living in Russia (instead of 17 in the past). And someone calls the current Moldovan authorities “democratic”? Gross manipulation of elections and referendum on #EU membership.
No 'Western' media will inform the public about this manipulation which l might well lead to an outcome that the majority of Moldovans oppose.
In Moldova, the “election manipulation operation” was apparently successful.
After it seemed as if a majority of Moldovans had voted against joining the EU in the referendum, the tide turned during the counting of the last 10 percent of the votes and now there appears to be a razor-thin majority in favor of joining the EU.
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On Monday night, the Moldovan electoral commission reported that after 90.04 percent of the votes cast in the referendum on the country’s EU accession had been counted, 53.8 percent of voters had voted against joining the EU. However, during the counting of the last ten percent of the votes, the tide seems to have turned and on Monday afternoon it was reported that after 98.6 percent of the votes had been counted, a razor-thin majority of 50.27 percent had voted in favor of joining the EU. In numbers, this means that 740,725 voters were in favor and 732,891 against.
Of course, people immediately talk about electoral fraud when an election result changes like this when the last ten percent of the votes are counted, but I suspect that there was no need for fraud, but that the measures introduced by the pro-Western government before the election to manipulate the election results were sufficient.
Why the votes of exiled Moldovans are decisive
There are 3.5 million Moldovans, but about a million people have left the country because of the extreme poverty. About half of the emigrants went to Russia, the other half to the West. Of course, the majority of exiled Moldovans vote according to the country they emigrated to. Exiled Moldovans in Europe vote pro-Western, exiled Moldovans in Russia vote the opposite way.
With such a large number of emigrants, exiled Moldovans are of course an important group in elections, because they make up about a third of those eligible to vote.
In elections, the votes cast in the country are usually counted and reported first, while postal votes and votes cast abroad are only included in the election results somewhat later. This paints a fairly clear picture: the majority of people in Moldova, whose votes were included first in the election results, were against joining the EU, although some opposition groups called for a boycott of the referendum, which means that not everyone who is against joining the EU actually voted.
The votes of exiled Moldovans were therefore crucial in turning the result around to a narrow majority in favor of Moldova joining the EU. And that’s where the manipulations of the Moldovan government come into play.
The rigged election
Although about half a million Moldovans live in Russia and about half a million Moldovans in the West, the Moldovan government has only opened two polling stations in Russia, in front of which very long queues naturally formed because they could only handle an estimated 10,000 voters.
For the other half a million exiled Moldovans who live in the West and vote in line with the pro-Western government, 234 polling stations were opened in 37 countries, which was almost 90 polling stations more than in the last elections in 2020.
In the breakaway republic of Transnistria, where the majority of people are against Moldova joining the EU, the Moldovan government has also restricted voting opportunities by reducing the number of polling stations there from 41 to 31 compared to the last election in 2020.
There is also another manipulation of the election results, as this year Moldova allowed postal voting for the first time, albeit with significant restrictions. Only exiled Moldovans living in Norway, Iceland, the USA, Finland and Sweden – in other words, countries where a particularly pro-Western election result was expected – were given the opportunity to vote by post.
In Russia, however, where exiled Moldovans were de facto denied the opportunity to vote by opening only two polling stations, there was no possibility of postal voting.
Since votes from abroad are the last to be included in the election result, this explains why the result changed so significantly when the last ten percent of the votes were counted.
By using these tricks to ensure that its critics were massively hindered from participating in the referendum and the presidential election that was taking place at the same time, the Moldovan government somehow ensured that the result it wanted was achieved, even though the majority of eligible voters obviously wanted a different result.
This is how “Western democracy” really works…
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By Anti Spiegel
One of the best analysts in Russia and Ukraine
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https://anti-spiegel.ru/2024/in-moldawien-war-die-operation-wahlmanipulation-offenbar-erfolgreich/
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Posted by: ossi | Oct 21 2024 16:58 utc | 24
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