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🗓️ 29 September 2025
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Moldova RAZOR THIN Sandu win exposes EU unpopularity
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the elections in Moldova, which should not surprise anyone the results of those elections. |
| 0:09.6 | It was obvious that the EU was going to do whatever they had to do in order to make sure that Sandus Party won the parliament elections, and it does look like they barely, barely got a majority |
| 0:24.5 | in the parliament. |
| 0:26.2 | But it was going to happen. |
| 0:30.1 | There was no way they were going to allow the opposition parties to win. |
| 0:34.9 | So they pulled out all the stops, all the tricks, and they got Sandu over the finish |
| 0:41.4 | line. But the story is that with all of the EU help, all of the West, U.S., NATO, EU, whatever, |
| 0:49.5 | all of the help and everything that they did in order to prevent the opposition from winning and to help |
| 0:56.9 | Sando do take these elections, she still barely, barely won, barely. I think that says a lot. |
| 1:06.2 | She's hanging on by a very, very thin thread. Absolutely. Now, you would just add that if the election |
| 1:12.7 | results had by any possible chance gone the other way, let's say her party has just fallen short |
| 1:21.8 | of getting an outright majority. And by the way, she has got no coalition partners in the parliament now because she's so |
| 1:29.9 | basically wildly unpopular. |
| 1:33.0 | But had she fallen short, I have absolutely no doubt that the election would have been annulled. |
| 1:40.1 | We had even Sandhu herself refusing to exclude that possibility in an interview before the election. |
| 1:50.2 | So every stop was pulled to avoid that eventuality. |
| 1:57.0 | But even if the result had been different, we would still have ended up, I think, in a situation where Sandu remained president and her party remained in overall control. |
| 2:10.0 | I think we very briefly, and I think we need to touch on just a few of the things that happened because obviously we can't just say that, you know, the election |
| 2:19.0 | was manipulated, but I mean, it was manipulated. Well, first of all, you summarised the situation |
| 2:24.8 | absolutely correctly. They did indeed pull out all the stops just to get her across the finishing |
| 2:33.7 | line, which is to give her a party an overall majority, |
| 2:38.4 | just a very thin, way for thin, overall majority in the Parliament. But I think it's important |
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