EADaily, November 6th, 2024. Today, on November 6, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry reacted to Moscow's statements that Maia Sandu could not be considered elected president, since the majority of voters in the country supported her rival Alexander Stoyanoglo.

Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin, has questioned the legitimacy of Moldova's presidential election, claiming Maia Sandu could not be deemed the country's president. Source: Russian Kommersant,

Moldova's pro-EU incumbent Maia Sandu on Sunday won a tense presidential runoff, beating her rival backed by a pro-Russian party in what she described as a "lesson in democracy".

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov delivered a scathing attack on the conduct of Sunday's election at his daily briefing with reporters. He said hundreds of thousands of Moldovans living in Russia had not been allowed to vote - unlike Moldovans living in the West, whose votes were critical to Sandu's victory.

The European Union on Monday welcomed the re-election of Moldova's pro-European President Maia Sandu, in a tense vote that has laid bare divisions in the former Soviet republic bordering war-torn Ukraine.

Sandu’s win overall looks impressive. But she did not win the vote in Moldova itself, where Stoianoglo beat her by some 30,000 votes. What saved Sandu, like the EU referendum, was the strong support for her among voters in the diaspora, where she captured almost five times as many votes as Stoianoglo.

Nearly 930,000 Moldovan citizens voted for incumbent President Sandu. Read also: Moldova stays aligned with EU as Sandu leads presidential runoff Her opponent, former prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo,