Hi all,

Today it’s the 2nd round of presidential elections in Moldova. The candidates are:

  • Maia Sandu - the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), pro-EU
  • Alexandr Stoianoglu - Socialists (PSRM), less pro-EU, rather pro-Russia, supported more or less by the Kremlin.

Get your Moldovan friends to the ballots if you have any. I’ll try to keep you posted about any updates as much as I can (I’ll be on a hike so I likely won’t have that much cell service).

Here’s the Election Commission’s official website where you can see the presence in real time (as well as the results after the polls close): pv.cec.md/

Right now it’s around 10:00 AM here in Romania, I guess it’s the same in MD

Edit: if you know any Romanian/trust Google Translate enough, here’s a live feed: hotnews.ro/live-alegeri-in-rep…

  • petrescatraian@libranet.deOP
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    5 days ago

    Update 6:50 PM local time: 1,526,359 people have voted so far, meaning 50.09% of every person who has the right to vote. Previously, at 5:43 PM, the servers of the Central Elections Commission were attacked, which disabled the website for the current elections.

    At 4:58 PM, a man aged 68 from Dochia county called the police after he was promised 1600 MDL to him by a 43 year old woman in order to vote against a certain candidate (according to the Moldovan police). The woman also promised his wife 2700 MDL for the same reason.

    The police searched the woman and found 24,000 MDL, as well as lists of people, as well as flyers and other materials containing messages calling to vote against the candidate. The woman was held in custody for 72 hours.

    At 1:49 PM, the Police reported activities of carrying people between multiple polling stations in Russia, Belarus, Azerbaidjan and Türkyie.