Lol. If they'd be smart, they'd take a bulletin, vote anti-EU, take a picture (which is actually illegal), then go out of the booth & ask for another bulletin bc they've made mistake. Then vote pro-EU & cast that one. 😂😂
"it's caused more confusion more division, more unity and more question mark" awesome reporting there. Causing more division and unity at the same time.
Probably corralated to voter turn-out. IF it is the largest turn out, it would be quite easy to have the largest number for and against a proposition. Consider the US election of 2020. Trump got the most votes ever for a sitting president, only Biden got more votes overall. Meaning MOre people were united behind Biden then everybofre while simultaneously, more people were against him than before.
The referendum was the idea of current president Sandu, who happens to have Romanian citizenship to. 2 thirds of the Moldovan parliament has to vote to recognise the Sandu referendum. Sandu doesn't have enough seats to steamroll it through.
Everyone rejects Russia because the Russian economic and political model only brings misery. There's always losers in the comments trying to suggest the contrary.
@@hetty43 Because the EU economic and political model has outperformed the Russian model consistently for the last 30 years. It's why there's literally not a single country in Europe that wants to be under the influence of Moscow.
@goodddddable err warehouses full of documents with anti western propaganda printed in Moldovan and Russian, on TV - including a dispassionate BBC, Hard to hide. + bank records of bribes paid to hundreds if not thousands, to vote against leaning more to Europe. TYPICAL Russian subversive behaviour. That's the difference between democracy which Putin fears the most, and a Soviet throwbacks corruption.
The Moldovan context has nothing to do with that of the UK. Moldova must approach the EU. Otherwise, it risks becoming a Russian puppet. Being a Russian protectorate is far worse than being part of the EU, even though nowadays, EU membership is not seen as a major achievement.
Russia was one of the supporters of Brexit (Aron Banks,.. remember him?) .. and is now sniffing the gas-, telecom- and powerlines at the North Sea bottom.. from and to the UK. If Russia isn't defeated in Ukraine then UK's position will become comparable to Moldova's position.
Not at all. Just two different directions, but the nation can only go in one. Just like on Nov. 5, American voters will also reject russia and put Kamala Harris in the White House.
They either do this or risk been another chechneya,Georgia and Ukraine it has already started in Moldova, with Russian separatist already taking a part of Moldova
The criteria for EU membership cannot be met whilst the Russian occupation of Transnistria is disputed. This is not a vote about EU membership, it’s part of a geopolitical campaign against Russia in the same way the EU sponsored Maidan revolt was in Ukraine.
Or MAYBE because that's how people in Moldova choose to vote, Nothing to do with Russia! EU! or any other group outside Moldova! Politicians need to stop blaming Russia for if they lose or even in this case come close to losing. Only people who could have voted in this election were people from Moldova.
@@datnon1137 Based on the recent past I'd have to disagree.. Russia is definitely working on changing bias towards Russia and anti EU and many other things
@@SeemoreDunkan It's true of every nation, with the capability, on every election that they have a vested interest in. Plus, that way they can say a vote didn't go such and such way because of so and so's interference.
Support Moldova by keeping a lookout for some of their fine brandy and other spirits, or asking your favorite liquor shop to stock them! I always pick up some Odessa VSOP Brandy when I visit the "Little Odessa" neighborhood in Brooklyn. "Noroc!" (Cheers!)
No it makes sense. If they live in Moldova. An work in Europe, then they benefit from the difference in the greater value of the euro over their currency. So if Moldova joins the EU then the difference in value may become smaller or disappear.
Is not those people who travel and work abroad that voted NO. These are by enlarge elderly that probably never left the country, soviet era nostalgics. 1 million Moldovans that live abroad probably live too far from the voting stations to bother.
Nobody outside russia would vote for Communism. It failed, people starved, the russians have a large enough country, putin really screwed up. Russia should be a massively wealthy and successful country, but instead it is a pariah state…
I think Moldova should ask Romania for help. Moldovians need to see how going to west will help them prosper. They eed to kick the russians out of transnistria.
False. More kremlin propaganda. And if it weren’t for the russian interference, the vote would have been more like 64% YES, 36% NO… most of Moldova really wants to be rid of the old Soviet influence, and I know they’d like russia to stop occupying Transnistria. Moldovans are sick of the russians. There is a great video that shows a Moldovan confronting a couple russian soldiers at a check point in Moldova. He basically lets them know they have no business in Moldova and to get the hell out of his way. They eventually give in, and move so he can drive past. The Moldovan really enjoyed doing that, too. 😂 Nobody fears russia. Nobody respects russia.
Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov criticized Monday's elections and referendum in Moldova, adding that the results showed a "difficult to explain" vote surge favoring President Maia Sandu and the European Union. "What we see is a mechanically hard-to-explain rate of increase in votes in favor of Sandu and in favor of those referendum participants who favored an EU orientation," Peskov stated. Previously, the country announced that the referendum on EU membership was narrowly approved, with 50.2% of voters in favor. Meanwhile, the presidential elections, held simultaneously, gave Sandu of the National Liberal Party "Action and Justice" 41.86%.
Hours ago it was being reported that ex-pat special votes were counted last and were expected to heavily favour the EU. That combined with large polling stations (that take longer to count) are in cities was expected to tighten the margin significantly.
Great news...NOT REALLY! What actually pushed it over 50% was the diaspora votes, so people in Moldova actually didn't want it. And what's even worse is the trend it showed for the presidential election. Maia Sandu got 42% , and her closest opponent 28%, BUT all the other votes were for opponents that went against her pro EU message, so most likely in the final election between the 2, those votes will go to her opponent. She and her party must somehow convince enough people that didn't vote in the 1st round to vote for her.
@@michaeldunham3385You're saying I'm doing propaganda? 😅 I wish someone would pay me for my thoughts. Unfortunately not the case dude. I just saw a detailed analysis of the vote, processed it and came out with that conclusion. I wish the situation was different in Moldova but sadly it's not. There's still A LOT of support for Russia.
Stoianoglo got 26% not 28%, and the people voting for Usatîi thought they were voting for a *pro-EU* option, remember? He got almost 14% running on an alternative pro-EU campaign. Even Stoianoglo suggested he'd continue with EU integration. Also, many votes in MD were bought.
Moldova votes to join at some point. Uk votes to leave. What a joke. It would be funny if it was it so devastating for us. A steady decline in the uk since 2015. Nothing works here.
This is ridiculous. The Moldovan president, like so many other european politicians, was partly educated in the USA. This particular president graduated from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard rapidly followed by two years as an advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank before going into politics in Moldova. Who is influencinf who?
Sky neglected to mention that Sandu the Moldovan president has Romanian citizenship to and only keeps power by the non resident postal vote. Strange that very few polling stations were provided in Russia to the large Moldovan community wanting to use their postal vote. Sky also didn't mention that 2 thirds of the Moldovan parliament have to agree to recognise the Sandu pushed referendum. Sandu doesn't have enough seats to steamroll this through.
I know, it is a term we hear so often because the russians try to meddle in everything. At least now here in the US, we have a government in place that is not pro-putin, and will not try to help the russians sabotage our elections.
I wish safety for moldovians. It is good to protest the country and join the EU. We Lithuanians had Russian influence, too, but despite it, we still chose to join the EU. Kremlin and Russia are not worth any trust because they showed it by attacking Ukraine
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Does this mean the West has to pay the upkeep and defence of this country the same as Ukraine ?
@@Rocket_scientist_88 Because he was in the front of the queue for the EU invitation, I am pleased for Moldova but I can't abide the begging Kiev conman.
Even if they EU where trying to influence, Moldova people can never know because they're told who to vote and who to go against. The kind of sovereignty that EU provides
