A partial count of ballots showed a 55% 'no' vote in a referendum on whether Moldova should add its EU membership plans to the constitution. Early presidential election results gave incumbent Maia Sandu a narrow lead.
Meanwhile, incumbent Maia Sandu was closer to a second term in office, after partial results in the country's presidential election gave her a small lead over her main rival.
Not quite. The presidential election isn't decided yet and this referendum wasn't directly on joining the EU but on a constitutional amendment that would have required future governments to work towards joining the EU.
Honestly, Moldova is too divided in this regard. Not to mention the Transnistria issue. If they were to join the EU in their current state, there's a chance we'd just end up with another Hungary/Slovakia situation. They need much more time IMO.
Everything just stayed the same plus one less headache to deal with in the EU. Not bad, really, considering all that's been going on in the last 10 years.
In a few years’ time, Sandu will have had an unfortunate accident with a window, and Moldovan conscripts will be dying in meatwave assaults on the western front of the Ukrainian permawar.
BRICS: For some reason, we're going to make a money laundering collective for dictatorships and be shocked when people call us up on it and we'll blame the EU