Moldova’s Election: A Front-Line Verdict on Europe—and the Kremlin
The citizens of Moldova walk into the voting booth today like soldiers stepping through a blast door: what happens on the other side decides the fight . Since 2020, President Maia Sandu has driven a pro-European course and reforms that earned the candidate status with the European Union (EU) in 2022. Now the question is simple and unforgiving —does the electorate keep the Party of Action and Solidarity on that track, or hand the wheel to parties eager to drift back toward Moscow?
Geography loads the dice. Moldova sits against a live warzone, bordering Ukraine as it claws toward its own accession. A stable, pro-Europe Chişinău locks a key piece of the eastern flank, denying the Kremlin a soft seam to pry op