Moldovan President Maia Sandu in an interview for the German public service station ZDF published on Saturday warned of “Strong Russian interference” in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. According to the DPA report, TASR reports this.
Sandu claims that Moscow is putting huge pressure on Moldova and spending hundreds of millions of euros to fund political parties, bribe voters and train young people for destabilization activities “. According to the Moldovan President, the territorial integrity and independence of the country are therefore at risk.
“The Moldovan future must be decided by Moldovans, not Moscow,” She said Sandu and added that her country is On a promising journey to membership in the European Union (EU), which she believes could come before the end of the decade. It appealed to considerable progress over the past three years.
More than two million Moldova is a candidate country to join the EU Since 2022 and its inhabitants will vote on Sunday on the composition of the new parliament. The latest surveys indicate that it can win again Sandu’s party, although it does not seem to be settled by the government.
Moldovan President on Friday described the upcoming elections as the most important ones in the modern history of the country. “Their result will decide whether we will consolidate our democracy and enter the EU, or whether Russia will withdraw us back to the gray zone and make us a regional threat,” Sandu wrote on the social network X.
