While the 2005 election was given a clean bill of health, election monitors have been detained or refused entry during both the April poll and the most recent one.
The ENEMO mission to observe the election has been rather scathing in their criticism of the election:
NDI Deplores Expulsion of International Election Observers from Moldova | NDI
And a member of the OSCE has also spoken out about irregularities:
European observer: first the Communists had 35% - Moldova Azi
To be honest, the Moldovan government has not exactly covered itself with glory here or done near enough to distance itself from accusiations of electoral corruption.
There is an interesting piece on the BBC about the background ot the elections and the parties:
BBC NEWS | Europe | Moldova: Divided as ever over new poll
Judging by this they seem to be living in a timewarp of sorts:
Quote:
Teenagers wearing red T-shirts and waving hammer-and-sickle flags gathered outside the government buildings this week.
"Lenin! Lenin!" they chanted.
But their T-shirts, too, carried the EU logo and their party vocally supports a path to EU membership.
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It would seem that "mature" and "democracy" are not words readily associated with the poltical sphere in Moldova. While I would hold off on criticism of the results, it does seem strange that in a country of grinding misery and poverty, the worst affected form the powerbase that votes time and again for the incumbant government. Odd.