The Pro-Europeans Defeated the Pro-Russians in the Moldovan Parliamentary Elections

The ruling pro-European party won the most votes and seats in the Moldovan parliamentary elections over the pro-Russian party, despite the heavy Russian interference I had posted about last week. The pro-Europeans nearly won a majority of votes, besting the pro-Russian party by a more than 2:1 margin. The ruling party won a majority of seats in Moldova’s Parliament, thereby avoiding the necessity of forming a coalition government with smaller parties. There were bomb threats not only in Moldova, but Romania, Italy, Spain and America where the Moldovan diaspora was voting, just like when the Russians made bomb threats during the 2024 United States elections. A breakaway part of the former Soviet Republic is populated by Russian speakers and occupied by Russian troops against Moldova’s will. The Russian Federation, which invaded the former Soviet Republics of Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, as ex-Soviet intelligence officer Vladimir Putin, the Russian tyrant, is trying to restore the Soviet Union and Russian Empire. As I have been posting, Russia uses many methods to engage in political interference in European States and America, among various other machinations. Moldova is a candidate for joining the European Union, which was a major issue in the campaign, as membership would reduce Russian influence. Moldova, like Romania earlier this year, now provides a model for defending against Russian interference. Moldova exposed Russian interference, conducted hundreds of raids and scores of arrests, and banned two Russian-financed political parties. Moreover, Moldova and its ruling party framed the election as a choice between being under Russian influence versus independence and alignment with Europe.