Elections in Moldavia are a farce, and the fact that they are manipulating them so openly and brazenly is one of the reasons why I believe EU elites plan to use the Moldovan population as a battering ram against Russia.

Moldova has a very large diaspora. 50/50 in Russia and the EU. They virtually ban Moldovan citizens in Russia from voting in Moldovan elections, and stuff ballots shamelessly in the EU. They ban a bunch of political parties from participating in the elections on made-up pretexts - some of those literally the day before the election -, and in the run-up they arrested a ton of people, including politicians, including a governor, and do thousands of raids at people's homes (over 3,000 individual home searches, according to the former Moldovan Minister of Justice).

They also publicly state that they WILL annul the elections if they don't like the result - just like in Romania before.

Acting this openly only makes sense as an emergency measure of desperation.
https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/1972292067113254919?t=fdANHfhQaquqdRP8_UJdeA&s=19
The Sandu government only opened two polling stations for the 400,000 Moldovan citizens in Russia. They only sent 10,000 ballots, and only 4,000 votes were counted, as the polls closed early, with huge numbers of Moldovans still standing in line outside the polling stations.
https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/1972419875806269452?t=EP45R-QZxi8M35rF3J9G2Q&s=19
There were 75 polling stations in Italy. 12 in Ireland - actually, more Moldovan votes were counted in Ireland than in Russia, despite Russia being home to ca. 200 times as many Moldovan voters. There were as many polling stations in Russia as in Japan and Israel.
https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/1972420358503584144?t=Xe9w5s6rXa5V0izYF0R6Pw&s=19