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Brussels/Madrid.- The European Fee and the Excessive Consultant of the European Union for International Affairs, Josep Borrell, have underlined their “satisfaction” with the outcomes of the referendum in Moldova on European integration within the face of Russia’s interference and their makes an attempt to disrupt the method.
“The Moldovan folks have expressed their need to anchor their future within the EU,” reads a joint assertion, after the constitutional reform with which the Authorities seeks to safe the trail in direction of EU accession has been endorsed with a slender margin, as 50.3 p.c voted ‘sure’ and 49.6 p.c voted ‘no’.
Brussels has famous that assist for the EU occurred in a context the place Moldova is the goal of a “hybrid warfare” marked by interference and manipulation actions to destabilize the nation from exterior, together with illicit funding of political actors, disinformation campaigns, and cyberattacks, in line with the OSCE report echoed by the European Fee.
“Russia and its affiliated actors actively tried to undermine the democratic and voting course of in Moldova. Nonetheless, we congratulate the Moldovan authorities for efficiently organizing the elections and the constitutional referendum,” the European Government emphasizes in a press release.
Additionally, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, has praised Moldova’s “pro-European” selection “regardless of evident exterior interference.” “It’s a sign that reaffirms their dedication to the European path and to persevering with the mandatory reforms to remodel their nation,” he identified.
From Spain, the President of the Authorities, Pedro Sánchez, has had a telephone dialog with the top of state of Moldova, Maia Sandu, to whom he conveyed Spain’s assist for the nation’s accession to the EU.
Sánchez congratulated her on the “choice to proceed advancing firmly on the trail in direction of the European Union.” “The Moldovan residents have stated sure to a pro-European horizon of peace and prosperity. Spain will preserve its assist for Moldova on this course of,” he added in a message on the social community X, reported by Europa Press.
The session was held coinciding with the presidential elections, during which Sandu was essentially the most voted candidate, with 42.4 p.c of the votes, however she should face the pro-Russian Alexander Stoiangolo in two weeks, on November 3, who got here in second with 26 p.c of the assist. (October twenty first and twenty second).
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