They just crossed the line. Very tight race in the end.
Yeah, given what polls were saying this is shockingly close (65% yes iirc). Russian money down the toilet though so that’s something.
BBC saying it’ll swing further “yes” from votes yet to be counted thankfully:
Moldovan media said many of the votes yet to be counted had been cast abroad and would likely lean towards Yes, as the Moldovan diaspora is broadly in favour of closer ties with the EU.
Interesting BBC article. At the end, it says:
A BBC producer [at a polling station] heard a woman who had just dropped her ballot in the transparent box ask an election monitor where she would get paid.
Outside, we asked directly whether she had been offered cash to vote and she admitted it without qualms. She was angry that a man who had sent her to the polling station was no longer answering her calls. “He tricked me!” she said.
She would not reply when asked who she had voted for.
Addition: BBC finds evidence of vote-buying in Moldova [video, 1 min.]
“He tricked me!” she said.
She would not reply when asked who she had voted for.
I think we know.
The Kremlin tricking people onto voting against their own interests, shocking!
