{"id":459030,"date":"2025-09-28T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459030\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:40:11","slug":"moldovas-pro-eu-party-tops-polls-in-elections-hit-by-russian-meddling-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459030\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova\u2019s pro-EU party tops polls in elections hit by Russian meddling claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Moldova\u2019s ruling pro-EU party on Sunday topped parliamentary elections, according to almost complete results for a vote overshadowed by accusations of Russian interference in the ex-Soviet country.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The small European Union candidate nation, which borders Ukraine and has a pro-Russia breakaway region, has long been divided over whether to move closer with Brussels or maintain Soviet-era relations with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sunday\u2019s elections were seen as crucial for the country to maintain its push towards EU integration, launched after Moscow\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With 95 per cent of the votes counted early on Monday, the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), in power since 2021, stood at 48.3 per cent, well ahead of the runner-up pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc at 25.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">PAS \u2013 whose leaders did not address waiting reporters late on Sunday \u2013 gained 52.8 per cent in 2021.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cStatistically speaking PAS has guaranteed a fragile majority,\u201d analyst Andrei Curararu of the Chisinau-based think tank WatchDog.md said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moldova\u2019s ruling pro-EU party on Sunday topped parliamentary elections, according to almost complete results for a vote overshadowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[521,51,1395,1700,2000,299,5187,3749,388,12,391,47141,93,53,978,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-459030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-lifestyle","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-south-china-morning-post","20":"tag-sport","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115284569374383158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}