If the flood of video is to be believed on Tiktok, then the people of Moldova are currently living through the reign of terror.
Thesis short video claims that the country is a leg ruled by the “dictatorship” of its Pro-Europe, Maia Sandu, and the ruling liberal-rugist action and solidarity party (PAS).
They allege that in this “puppet rule” it is from the European Union, NATO and US billionaire George Soros to destroy Moldova’s agriculture, “Introducing LGBTQ ideology” and led the country to war against the Russian Federation.
Former President’s Tikok Abhiyan
One of the people finding things on almost daily tiktok is a dedicated follower of former Moldova president, Igor Dodon, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Dodon is the leader of the Samajwadi Party of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) and head of the election block coalition of patriotism. The logo of the coalition has a red and white star that is around a heart with a Soviet hammer and sickle in its center.
Dodon described her as a right -wing and committed to “traditional values”, “Close your video with conservative christian salutes” God help us! ,
Europe and West, Soviet Nostalgia, loyalty to Kremlin, orthodox Christian pioneers and right -wing localism appeal to a large part of Moldovan society, especially in view of the uncertain status of ESY people in the country, special pensioners, specific pensioners.
About half of the voters are still unspecified
It is worth noting from the end of last year, when Maiya Sandu was only narrowly re -elected President.
The country’s goal of joining the European Union confirms only a referendum of a few thousand votes in a referendum held in a single day.
Now, however, things can go very well in another way.
On Sunday, Moldovens go to elections to elect a new Parliament. This will be the first scheduled general election as Moldova and Ukraine were given a candidate status by the European Union in 2022.
Moldova at an intersection
Now for months, the pole has been seen as a decisive election and a one who can take the country forward with the road to the European Union or Russia can withdraw.
Referendum surveys in the country are considered notorious unattainable. The unexpectedness of the vote is more complex than the fact that almost half of all voters have not yet made up their minds who are going to vote.
Even though Sandu’s liberal conservative, supporters Europe, anti -corruption civil rights party PAS is expected to remain the strongest party, it may lose the absolute majority obtained in 2021.
Russian parties running in the race
Two other electoral alliances that indicate the opinion poll will be represented in the new Parliament, both clearly Russian supporters.
The thesis is known as an alternative to patriotic electoral blocks and political coalitions, established by Mayor Chisinaau, Mayor of Ion Seban.
Our party (PN) is another party that can enter Parliament. This businessman Renato was found by Usti, a political courageous and populist, who made his luck in Russia and is difficult to pin politically.
Usatii can eliminate the balance of power and determine whether the country maintains its Europe-supporter government or receives supporters.
Russian ambassador’s blasphemous threat
All this explains why President Sandu has declared the election as the most important election, the country gained freedom from the Soviet Union in 1991 and warned of a potential “defeat to democracy”.
He has said that if it comes to pass, “Russia wants to destabilize us and removes us from Europe.”
Russian pro -camp is making little effort to deny this.
Dodon and his patriotic electoral blocks are openly calling for the country’s Pro-Europe Course and to return to Russian structures of the Commonwealth (CIS) and Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) of independent states.
Oleg Ozerov, the Ambassador of Russia to Moldova, recently said a blank, thin nervous threat to the country, saying that Russia is in favor of preserving the regional integrity and neutrality of the Republic of Moldova, and that the example of Ukraine was left when its neutral state was abandoned.
Humiliation to Russia
Economically, the Kremlin does not require Moldova, which is a small, large -scale agricultural country, with a population of about 2.8 million.
Nevertheless, Russia’s royal mindset led to launch its first post-Soviyat war in the separatist region of Transnistria in East Moldova in 1992. Around 1,500 Russian soldiers are currently stationed there, and have a large reserves of weapons.
But Moldova’s strategic value has increased as Russia attacked Ukraine in early 2022, this massive defensive country Jungle allowed Russia to wage war against two fronts against Ukraine.
Furthermore, it should not be understood that there is a lot to insult Russia’s attitude towards Moldova, in which she has used there – as the fact that as a woman, Maya Sandu has set her country from Russian throat and set on a route towards Europe.
Large -scale voting
Given all this, it is not surprising that Russia is doing everything that can do the election for its own benefit.
One way to do this is the purchase of votes through the app. Last year, up to 300,000 voters registered for the app. At that time, the Moldovan government spoke of an “unprecedented hybrid attack” on the country.
The purchase of votes is coordinated by a network run by Moldovan-Israeli businessman Ilan noise, commissioned by people in Russian secret services and, eventually, Kremlin.
The noise was known as the “century theft” in Moldova, where Moldova’s banking system was the mastermind behind a billion dollar stolen through complex lending structure in 2012 and 2014.
A 15 -year prison was sentenced in Moldova, the noise first fled to Israel in 2019 and later in Russia. Many parties, which they found exclusively for this election, have been banned.
Now for months, Moldovan police have been warning citizens not to be mixed in buying votes. Unknowingly, however, they do not look very successful. Raids against the people involved in the electoral mad and coordinating the plan to buy votes are being done and arrest is being done across the country almost every day.
Fake news and typical supporters Russian stories
Another strategy is the flood of social media – and especially Tikokok – with thousands of videos spreading fake news.
This is particularly effective because most of Moldovan citizens get their information from social media.
Apart from the typical supporters Russian narratives, many current videos are claiming that Mia Sandu’s “rule” is a symbol of corruption and the ruling PAS is sinking hundreds of thousands of people in poverty.
The reality is that it was actually in Sandu and PAS, the party established in Moldova was first to start a fixed battle against corruption in Moldova as the country declared freedom from the Soviet Union.
What’s more, it is Russia in Ukraine that has immersed Moldova into a major economic crisis, above, the results resulted in a huge increase in energy prices and the expiry of Russian gas delivery in the beginning of 2025.
But former President Igor Dodon, who is involved in several cases of suspected corruption, is none to move by facts. In terms of the political color of the ruling PAS, his main election is the slogan “Yellow plague should go!”
This article was the original published in German.