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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.
Update 11:06 PM local time: Polls have closed. Preliminary results after counting 90.90% of the ballots show a slight advance of Stoianoglo over Sandu in the national count:
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However, things look different in Chișinău:
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As well as in Diaspora:
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Polls are not closed yet in the US and in Canada
Alternative source for following the results (it's also in English): shrnk.org/md/
Update 11:24 PM local time: The aforementioned source now started showing who is the one currently leading in the votes. The results are tight, showing that either Maia Sandu is leading or Stoianoglo, changing from second to second, almost.
CNN Projects that Maia Sandu will win the elections:
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Update 11:33 PM local time:
Maia Sandu is leading in the polls!
This time, on the official CEC page too!
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Still 5.95% of the votes left to process, but 20% of the diaspora votes have been counted already, and the remaining ones are most likely in favor of Maia Sandu too (they're in Western countries, and the diaspora there is less exposed to the Kremlin narratives). Polling stations are still open in the US.
HotNews (Ro) also says that 320,000 people voted in the Diaspora until 10 PM local time, a record figure.
In other news, the Police is investigating a 40-year-old woman in the Ungheni county for voter corruption. Investigators say that the woman was the local leader of the Criminal Organization Șor, who paid people to vote in a certain way.
Other cases of voter corruption were recorded in Chișinău (6), as well as the counties of Cantemir (1), Nisporeni (1), Rîșcani (1), Rezina (2), Anenii Noi (2), Orhei (2), Glodeni (1), Leova (1), Soroca (1), Șoldănești (1), Ungheni (1), Căușeni (1), Fălești (1), Hăncești (1), Ștefan Vădă (1) and in the autonomous territorial unit of Găgăuzia (1).
In Russia, Moldova opened just 2 polling stations, both in Moscow, citing security concerns. Ballot papers finished a little before 9 PM, when the vote was officially closed. People were angry, some chanting Down with Maia Sandu (in Romanian) (Source).
Update Monday, 12:13 AM, local time: Maia Sandu de facto won the elections. There are not enough votes for Stoianoglo to flip the results:
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I am so glad to hear this! Thank you for sharing, I was anticipating the results of this!