Moldova's pro-EU party defeats pro-Russia party

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57% : With nearly all polling station reports counted on Monday, electoral data showed the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity, or PAS, had 50.1% of the vote, while the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc had 24.2%.
57% : An unambiguous win Cristian Cantir, a Moldovan associate professor of international relations at Oakland University, told the Associated Press that PAS's victory is "a clear win for pro-European forces in Moldova, which will be able to ensure continuity in the next few years in the pursuit of their ultimate goal of EU integration.
52% : PAS campaigned on a pledge to continue Moldova's path toward EU membership by signing an accession treaty to the 27-nation bloc by 2028, doubling incomes, modernizing infrastructure, and fighting corruption.
51% : The alleged Russian schemes included orchestrating a large-scale vote-buying scheme, conducting more than 1,000 cyberattacks on critical government infrastructure so far this year, a plan to incite riots around Sunday's election, and a sprawling disinformation campaign online to sway voters.
50% : Moldova applied to join the EU in 2022 in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and was granted candidate status that year.
49% : Landlocked between war-torn Ukraine and European Union member Romania, Moldova, a Soviet republic until it proclaimed independence in 1991, has in recent years taken a clear Westward path, turning the country into a geopolitical battleground between Russia and Europe.
44% : " OPINION: MOLDOVA'S ELECTION TEST AGAINST RUSSIA "A PAS majority saves the party from having to form a coalition that would have most likely been unstable and would have slowed down the pace of reforms to join the EU," he said, adding that "Moldova will continue to be in a difficult geopolitical environment characterized by Russia's attempts to pull it back into its sphere of influence.

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