Speaking on Monday, Eusebiu Slavitescu said: “There is extensive evidence of voting buyout, voters traveling from one polling station to another.

“As we have seen yesterday (...) lots of planes [were] flying from Russia, Turkey to Baku to Minsk in order to bring these voters to vote for the pro-Russian candidate.”

He added, however, that Russia’s primary aim of leveraging power and influence in Moldova will be in next year’s parliamentary election, in July.

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