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Final result sees ‘yes’ vote scrape ahead by 13,000 votes, narrowly avoiding shock setback for pro-western president

Moldovans have voted by a razor-thin majority in favour of joining the EU after a pivotal referendum clouded by allegations of Russian interference.

On Sunday, Moldova held key votes in a presidential election and a referendum on EU membership, marking a critical moment in the continuing struggle between Russia and the west for control over the small, landlocked nation in eastern Europe, home to 2.5 million people.

After all the votes were counted in the referendum that asked voters to choose whether to enshrine in the country’s constitution a path toward the EU, the “yes” vote crept into first place with 50.46% of the nearly 1.5m ballots cast, according to the Central Electoral Commission.

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago

Exhibit #1 of why every vote counts and every voter is needed.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Especially those living outside the country right?

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 3 days ago
[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

how to miss the point entirely

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 days ago

Tell me, did you at least hear a whoosh?

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Big news, and it's good they're polling on important issues where the government position and popular position are clearly in disagreement. But it's weird the reporting would take this angle.

a pivotal referendum clouded by allegations of Russian interference.

I mean it's not that weird, more typical, blatant and dishonest. Especially when they address an allegation, but then ignore the confirmed case of USA interference. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/19/moldova-election-protection-biden-russia-00184429

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago

So… is that enough votes by their constitution to move ahead with the constitutional rewrite?

[-] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 11 points 4 days ago

"The result means a clause will be added to the constitution defining EU accession as a goal, though the country’s potential admission to the European bloc is still many years away."

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

So they unilaterally voted to join EU while EU says them the same thing they say to Turkey, which is basically "never"?

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

As if Turkey wants to join the eu.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Right now they certainly don't, they sit on the fence waiting what next. but the main factor in convincing them to do so was the duplicious stance of EU that was dangling the membership for decades while inviting many other countries before. So it's not like what they want matters, they were never gonna get invited anyways.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 days ago

at the rate things are going the EU is likely to collapse before that happens

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If rather had the margin be bigger. However just like Brexit, the vote is final. Moldova gets the fuck out of Russia. No backsies. Annoying when that happens, eh Vlad?

[-] phughes@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

just like Brexit, the vote is final.

Brexit was a non-binding proposition, but right wingers didn't actually care what the people wanted.

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