Final result sees ‘yes’ vote scrape ahead by 13,000 votes, narrowly avoiding shock setback for pro-western president

Final result sees ‘yes’ vote scrape ahead by 13,000 votes, narrowly avoiding shock setback for pro-western president

Moldovans have voted by a razor-thin majority in favour of joining the EU after a pivotal referendum clouded by allegations of Russian interference.

On Sunday, Moldova held key votes in a presidential election and a referendum on EU membership, marking a critical moment in the continuing struggle between Russia and the west for control over the small, landlocked nation in eastern Europe, home to 2.5 million people.

After all the votes were counted in the referendum that asked voters to choose whether to enshrine in the country’s constitution a path toward the EU, the “yes” vote crept into first place with 50.46% of the nearly 1.5m ballots cast, according to the Central Electoral Commission.

  • @rtxnEnglish
    46•2 months ago

    Exhibit #1 of why every vote counts and every voter is needed.

  • Em Adespoton
    9•2 months ago

    So… is that enough votes by their constitution to move ahead with the constitutional rewrite?

    • @[email protected]
      11•2 months ago

      “The result means a clause will be added to the constitution defining EU accession as a goal, though the country’s potential admission to the European bloc is still many years away.”

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 months ago

        So they unilaterally voted to join EU while EU says them the same thing they say to Turkey, which is basically “never”?

        • @riodoro1
          5•2 months ago

          As if Turkey wants to join the eu.

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 months ago

            Right now they certainly don’t, they sit on the fence waiting what next. but the main factor in convincing them to do so was the duplicious stance of EU that was dangling the membership for decades while inviting many other countries before. So it’s not like what they want matters, they were never gonna get invited anyways.

  • @[email protected]
    -3•2 months ago

    If rather had the margin be bigger. However just like Brexit, the vote is final. Moldova gets the fuck out of Russia. No backsies. Annoying when that happens, eh Vlad?

    • @[email protected]English
      8•2 months ago

      just like Brexit, the vote is final.

      Brexit was a non-binding proposition, but right wingers didn’t actually care what the people wanted.