How Moldovans voted abroad
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Although everything possible was done to restrict the access to the ballot boxes, the Moldovan citizens abroad demonstrated exemplary mobilization, Info-Prim Neo learns from an association of Moldovans in Italy, Alexandru Ciobanu.
In the Bologna-based polling station, the voters started to appear at 6 am, although the consulate was closed. After 8 pm, hundreds of Moldovan citizens still stood in the courtyard of the consulate, as they came after ending work at hundreds of kilometers away.
According to Ciobanu, the voters came from Portogruaro, Rimini, Parma, Brescia and Reggio Emilia. Some Moldovan used their cars to take citizens to Bologna 7-8 times a day.
3,642 Moldovans voted in the polling station about the Bologna consulate. 58 voted for the PCRM, the PLDM scored 1,227 votes, the PL – 1,965, the AMN – 159 and the PDM – 116. The other 117 votes went to parties that did not enter the parliament.
According to data provided by the Moldovan embassy to Rome, 1,796 Moldovans voted. The PCRM gained 72 votes, the PLDM – 669, the PL – 684, the AMN – 123, and the PDM – 110.
In Bucharest, 3,659 Moldovan citizens voted, as the PCRM scored 63 ballots, that is 1.72%. 1,984 votes, 54.22%, voted for the PL. The PLDM gained 1,095 ballots, that is 29.92%. The AMN got 212 votes (5.79%). The PDM was voted by 203 Moldovans (5.54%).
A known opinion leader from Chisinau has told the news agency that, “if you want to know how many employees and spies work in the Moldovan embassies abroad, see the number of the people having voted for the PCRM”.
The Moldovans working in Spain had to go and vote in Paris, said Olga Rusu, a Moldovan living in Spain. She opines the Chisinau Communist government deprived at least 16,000 Moldovans from their right to vote, by setting the vote day on a working day and by not opening polling stations in Spain.
Mariana Arsene from Canada has has told Info-Prim Neo that that country annually takes about 5,000 Moldovans, but there was no polling station for them.
According to the CEC, in those 33 diplomatic missions abroad, as many as 15,377 citizens voted.
