Moldovans sun fito zaɓe a ranar Lahadi, a zaben raurawar shugaban ƙasa wanda zai iya taka rawar gani mai mahimmanci a kan makomar ƙasar a Turai. Shugabar ƙasa mai ci Maia Sandu, wacce ke goyon bayan Turai, ta yi hamayya da Alexandr Stoianoglo, tsohon babban lauyan jiha wanda Sandu ta tsere daga mukamin sa shekaru da suka gabata.
Sandu ta samu kashi 42.5% na kuri’u a zagayen farko na zaben shugaban ƙasa biyu makonni da suka gabata, yayin da Stoianoglo, wanda ke samun goyon bayan jam’iyyar Socialist mai goyon bayan Rasha, ya samu kashi 26%. Stoianoglo ya samu goyon bayan ‘yan takarar da suka sha kashi a zagayen farko, wanda ya sa masu nazari su yi hasashen hamayya mai karfi.
Zaben ya gudana a kan bayan zabe mai zafi na kuri’ar raba wanda aka gudanar a biyu makonni da suka gabata, inda kashi 50.35% na masu jefa kuri’a suka amince da shiga cikin Tarayyar Turai. Sandu ta zargi “matsin lamba daga waje” a kan kuri’ar raba, yayin da ‘yan sanda suka ce sun gano shirin siyan kuri’u daga Rasha wanda zai iya shafar har zuwa kashi 25% na kuri’u.
Ahead of the vote, Sandu’s camp intensified campaigning on social media and in door-to-door visits in villages to try to counter any vote buying. “Let’s remain mobilised so that the honest votes determine the outcome of these elections and not the bought ones,” Sandu said in a video message on Friday.
‘Yan sanda sun ruwaito “massive phenomenon” na mutane da ake kai musu kira, imel, har ma da barazanar kisa don shafar kuri’u. Firayim Minista Dorin Recean ya kira hakan “extreme attack… to create panic and fear so that people will be afraid to go out and vote.”.
Moldova ta fara tattaunawar shiga cikin Tarayyar Turai bayan Rasha ta kai farmaki kan Ukraine a shekarar 2022. Stoianoglo ya ce ya goyi bayan shiga cikin Tarayyar Turai, amma ya boykoti zaben kuri’ar raba, inda ya kira shi “parody”, kuma ya yi alkawarin masu jefa kuri’a “balanced foreign policy”, wanda zai dawo da alaƙar da aka katse da Moscow ta Sandu.
Moldova ta riga ta zama ƙasa mai rarrabuwa sosai. Diaspora mai yawa da babban birnin sun goyi bayan shiga cikin Tarayyar Turai, yayin da yankunan karkara da yankunan pro-Russian na Transnistria da Gagauzia suna adawa da shi.
