kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: #Moldova meme related to the weekend’s elections - on top it says “votes bought ...
#Moldova meme related to the weekend’s elections - on top it says “votes bought by Sora”, on the bottom “diaspora”, making a nice rhyme.
What happened in Moldova? A #Russia oligarch Sora invested $40m in bribing Moldovan voters in September and October alone. In the first round, he was expected to secure up to 130’000 votes in this way. By the way, this is exactly the same “voting technology” as used by pro-Russian “Georgian Dream” in recent elections in Georgia.
But in the second round which happened over the last weekend some 330’000 Moldovans living abroad took part in the elections and changed the balance.
Current preliminary results can be found on this page https://pv.cec.md/cec-presidential-results-tour2.html and you can see that 83% votes abroad were for Sandu (pro-Ukrainian). Unfortunately, it’s not possible to see votes from specific countries (yet?) but it would be ironic if Moldovan emigrees in Russia and Belarus also predominantly voted for Sandu!
What happened in Moldova? A #Russia oligarch Sora invested $40m in bribing Moldovan voters in September and October alone. In the first round, he was expected to secure up to 130’000 votes in this way. By the way, this is exactly the same “voting technology” as used by pro-Russian “Georgian Dream” in recent elections in Georgia.
But in the second round which happened over the last weekend some 330’000 Moldovans living abroad took part in the elections and changed the balance.
Current preliminary results can be found on this page https://pv.cec.md/cec-presidential-results-tour2.html and you can see that 83% votes abroad were for Sandu (pro-Ukrainian). Unfortunately, it’s not possible to see votes from specific countries (yet?) but it would be ironic if Moldovan emigrees in Russia and Belarus also predominantly voted for Sandu!