The pro -European Union party is advancing in the parliamentary elections in Moldova

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The President of Moldovan Mia Sando led the European Union supporter with more than 45 percent of the vote after most polling cards were calculated on Sunday night, in parliamentary elections that are central to the future of the country.

The Ruler and Solidarity Party (PAS), which carried out a platform to join the European Union, outperformed pre -election predictions, but with about 85 percent of the votes that were calculated, was less than the direct majority of the 101st legislative body that was hoping.

However, the results were still largely suspended by the moldovans liveing ​​abroad, a group that has already voted in favor of PAS.

The Eastern Eastern State elections are relied on amid widespread accusations of interfering by Russia before voting. Officials accused Moscow of publishing easy tactics of the influence of voters in the former Soviet Republic, with a population of 2.5 million people between Ukraine and Romania.

On Sunday, electronic attacks targeted electoral systems in Moldova and the threats of fake bombs to disrupt voting at the diaspora polling stations in many European cities, according to the National Security Adviser at Sando Stanislav Serrero.

“I have also made coordinated attempts to bus residents via Trancesteria to the polling stations in Romania,” Seriro said. Unrelated separation republic Russia dominates it on the eastern edge of Moldova.

About 85 percent of the votes of 1.6 million votes were calculated in the elections – which represented a demand of 52 percent – by midnight in Moldova on Sunday, but about half 277,000 votes were thrown by the diaspora.

The main rival of the PAS, a group of opposition parties known as the national electoral bloc led by former President of Russia Igor Dodon, was second according to preliminary results, with 26 percent of the votes.

Dodon, who carried out a campaign under the slogan of a hammer and a stage, repeatedly a call after the polling stations were closed to his supporters to come out in the middle of the day on Monday in the capital Cisenao, which sparked the possibility of political instability in the country.

On Sunday, Moldovan Police warned that they had “information related to certain groups of individuals who intend … to regulate disturbances and destabilize the capital” and warned of activities that violate the law or the disruption of public order.

Two days before the elections, Serbia said it arrested two of its citizens to provide “combat” training for more than 150 citizens from Moldovan and Romanian, as part of preparations to incite violence in Moldova on election day. Earlier, Moldovan authorities arrested at least 74 people accused of planning mass disorders, linked to training in Serbia who said that he was coordinated by Russian coaches.

in Interview with financial times Earlier this month, Sando also accused the Kremlin of using the Orthodox priests to spread propaganda supporting Russia during the publication of a wide robot network to generate misleading information aimed at sabotaging its government and aspirations in the European Union.

Sando told the European Parliament: “The goal of the Kremlin is clear: Moldova captures through the ballot box, for our use against Ukraine and converting us into a platform for hybrid attacks on the European Union,” Sandu told the European Parliament.

Over the past year, officials in Moldova discovered networks from the usual agents to transfer money to the country to pay voters, plans that involve encrypted currency payments and additional “pensions” that Russia pays to some elderly in parts of ethnic and ethnic minorities in the country, cyber attacks and other technologies.

The national electoral bloc and its leader Dodon, who lost the Sandu presidency in 2020, accused the Sando government of manipulating the electoral process, without providing evidence.

Russia, which maintains a degree of leverage in Moldova through its dominance TransnistriaHe previously denied participating in any elections that interfere abroad.

The third place is 9 percent according to the preliminary results of the alternative bloc, the Alexander Stoianglu Group, a group by Alexander Stoyanolo, a group of Sando last year.

The uninterrupted result will lead to a coalition government, whose makeup will be crucial for the future geopolitical cycle in Moldova. The Dodon Bloc called for friendship with Russia, while Stoyanolo, the former public prosecutor, called for Moldova in “Weam” with “West and East”.