Journalists and police challenged disinformation, intimidation and cash-for-vote schemes, while huge numbers turned up to vote, says journalist and writer Paula Erizanu
aving lived in Britain for 12 years, I returned to my native Moldova in 2022 because I was worried that Russia’s war inwould spill into my country. Thanks to the Ukrainian resistance, the skies are still clear in Moldova. But in the past weeks leading up to the presidential runoff between the pro-European incumbent Maia Sandu and the Russian-supported former prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo, I felt as if I might lose my country once again.
The pro-Russian Socialist party , which supported Stoianoglo, said that it did not recognise the election results and that Sandu would only be the “president of the diaspora”. Yet 70% of the votes she received
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