The Kremlin dismissed Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s widely-acknowledged election for a second term, saying the pro-Western leader hadn’t won the support of a majority of voters in her country.
“She is not, as far as we understand, the president of her country, because in the country itself, the majority of the population did not vote for her,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters Tuesday, according to the Interfax news service. “We are talking about a very, very divided society.”