{"id":459605,"date":"2025-09-29T05:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459605\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:13:25","slug":"moldova-embassy-in-brussels-evacuated-after-election-day-bomb-threat-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459605\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova embassy in Brussels evacuated after election day bomb threat \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese are the same tactics we have warned about \u2014 voter suppression,\u201d said one of the officials following the evacuation. <\/p>\n<p>Voting has since resumed at the embassy after it was given the all-clear by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-EU government of Moldovan President Maia Sandu has repeatedly warned that Russia is trying to sway the parliamentary election and derail the country\u2019s efforts to join the bloc. The governing Party of Action and Solidarity has declared it hopes to take the country into the EU by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with POLITICO last month, Moldova\u2019s National Security Adviser Stanislav Secrieru <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-moldova-voting-elections-candidates-west-kremlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned that Moscow would try to intimidate diaspora voters<\/a> \u2014 the majority of whom want to see their country become a member of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The vote, he said, could see \u201cpossible disruptions similar to those seen in previous elections \u2014 such as hoax bomb threats at polling stations in European cities \u2014 or staged protests abroad aimed at projecting false dissatisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary results from the critical vote are expected later on Sunday. Officials have repeatedly sounded the alarm over a wide-scale disinformation campaign and attempts to bribe voters after the same tactics were used against Sandu in a presidential election last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThese are the same tactics we have warned about \u2014 voter suppression,\u201d said one of the officials following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,5719,13071,33,51099,12337,13491,12,332,811,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-459605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-buildings","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-disinformation","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-maia-sandu","13":"tag-missions","14":"tag-moldova","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-security","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115285878626690671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459605","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=459605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}