Update Monday, 11:50 AM local time: Ziarul de Gardă published the map of the preliminary results of the elections.

There is also an easier to read map on r/Moldova, back on the spez site.

With the elections coming to a close, international reactions started to flow, most of them congratulating Maia Sandu, with Emmanuel Macron even writing a message in Romanian on X (formerly known as Twitter):

preview.redd.it/utmakul7otyd1.…

Translation:

I would like to congratulate Maia Sandu on her re-election as President of the Republic of Moldova. Democracy has triumphed in the face of all interference and maneuvering. France will continue to stand by Moldova on its European path

Other leaders who congratulated Maia Sandu were Ursula von der Leyen, Roberta Metsola, as well as the exiled leader of the Belarus opposition, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

As a personal note, I would also like to thank you for following my updates on this thread, as well as the previous one. I thought that there is too little content regarding the Romanian-speaking space here on fedi overall, hence why I decided to take the matter in my own hands. Do you have any feedback to give me on this? Perhaps you're just as unsatisfied with the federation issues I have as much as I am. Or just write me any other nice stuff that you want 😀

If so, I created a form below:

nc.libranet.de/apps/forms/s/2a…

https://feddit.org/u/petrescatraian@libranet.de

Seems all fine, right?

Pro-EU leader claims Moldova victory despite alleged Russian meddling

Moldova's pro-EU President Maia Sandu has claimed a second term after a tense election run-off seen as a choice between Europe and Russia. With most votes counted Sandu had won 55%, and in a late-night speech she promised to be president for all Moldovans.

Her rival Alexandr Stoianoglo, who was backed by the pro-Russian Party of Socialists, had called for a closer relationship with Moscow.

During the day the president's national security adviser said there had been "massive interference" from Russia in Moldova's electoral process that had "high potential to distort the outcome".

Russia had already denied meddling in the vote, which came a week after another key Eastern European election in Georgia, whose president said it had been a "Russian special operation".

The main post doesn't update on Beehaw side, so I'll leave these in the comments:

Update 5:43 PM local time: This is my first update for today, as I'm now in the train and I have service. At 2:00 PM local time, presence reached and surpassed 1 mil. people. Also, at 11:20 AM local time it was reported that there was a massive car queue on the Rezina bridge, coming from Transnistria. The bridge was subsequently closed by the police due to a bomb threat. Multiple bomb threats were reported outside the country as well, at polling stations in UK, at Liverpool and Northampton, and in Frankfurt, Germany. The Liverpool polling station was closed permanently, and voters were guided to go to Manchester.

Update 6:50 PM local time: 1,526,359 people have voted so far, meaning 50.09% of every person who has the right to vote. Previously, at 5:43 PM, the servers of the Central Elections Commission were attacked, which disabled the website for the current elections.

At 4:58 PM, a man aged 68 from Dochia county called the police after he was promised 1600 MDL to him by a 43 year old woman in order to vote against a certain candidate (according to the Moldovan police). The woman also promised his wife 2700 MDL for the same reason.

The police searched the woman and found 24,000 MDL, as well as lists of people, as well as flyers and other materials containing messages calling to vote against the candidate. The woman was held in custody for 72 hours.

At 1:49 PM, the Police reported activities of carrying people between multiple polling stations in Russia, Belarus, Azerbaidjan and Türkyie.