DISINFO: The West could falsify the results of the early elections in Moldova
SUMMARY
The West could falsify the results of the early elections. We cannot rule out that, through the Western contest, the electoral process abroad will be fraudulent, namely that an impressive number of voters will be allocated for PAS party.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about the West's involvement in Moldova's elections and internal affairs. This narrative is repeated every time around the elections, but also after. This time it appeared before the decision, on 15 April, 2021, of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova that stated that there are conditions in the country for the dissolution of the Parliament and the organisation of early elections, something that was requested by the country's president, Maia Sandu, a former member of PAS party.
See here a similar case claiming that in November 2020 the West interfered in Moldova to help Maia Sandu win the presidential election and here a case about ”election fraud” operated by the ”collective West”. No evidence of possible electoral fraud has ever been presented. In the last elections, the presidential ones, in November 2020, the OSCE/ODHIR Election Observation Mission did not find any serious deviations, the fact also mentioned in the official EU statement on the electoral process.