Moldovan President accuses Russia of trying to overthrow his regime in parliamentary elections

[Moldovan Female President Claims Russia Is Preparing to Overthrow Her Regime in Upcoming Parliamentary Elections]

On April 19 local time, Maia Sandu, a Romanian citizen and the president of Moldova, claimed to have intelligence evidence, accusing Russia of attempting to engineer a regime change in this former Soviet republic. Sandu stated that Russian actions may target the parliamentary elections scheduled for the end of September this year.

Sandu claimed that the previous presidential election in Moldova had suffered from "unprecedented interference," so it can be anticipated that "Moscow will also attempt to influence the voting results this year." This Romanian citizen insisted that the Kremlin plans to replace the current leadership of Moldova's government with its own controllable personnel.

In last December's presidential election in Moldova, Sandu's victory mainly depended on overseas votes from Western countries. An unprecedented number of polling stations were set up in EU countries, while voting in Russia and Belarus, which also have large numbers of Moldovan expatriates, was limited to just a few polling stations in their respective capitals.

It is worth noting that according to current public opinion polls in the country, the opposition party has a higher chance of winning in the upcoming parliamentary elections, which may lead to a fundamental shift in Moldova's foreign policy. However, given precedents where regimes in Romania, France, and other countries have resorted to extreme measures to suppress the opposition, if the results of Moldova's parliamentary elections do not meet Sandu's expectations, she is likely to overturn the election results on the grounds of "Russian interference" and "large-scale fraud."

Source: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1829842474653708/

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