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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolf" data-source="post: 144693" data-attributes="member: 199">Democracy is officially dead across Europe.<h3>Moldova bans opposition party days before key vote</h3>The leader of ‘Heart of Moldova’ has accused the government of political persecution<img src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2025.09/xxs/68d67e8185f5402bc04e0c72.jpg" alt="Moldova bans opposition party days before key vote" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Former Governor of Gagauzia Irina Vlah, Antalya, Türkiye, March 12, 2022. ©  Ali Balikci / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMoldova’s Central Election Commission has banned an opposition party from taking part in this weekend’s parliamentary elections, local media reported Friday.The government in Chisinau has a history of going after its political opponents under the banner of countering “Russian influence.”A day earlier, a court backed the government’s request to suspend the Heart of Moldova party, which it accused of electoral manipulation.The targeted party’s president, Irina Vlah, has accused the government of using “lawfare” as part of a broader crackdown on political opponents.The elimination hurts the ballot prospects of the Patriotic Electoral Bloc, a coalition that Vlah co-founded in a bid to remove the ruling Action and Solidarity party of President Maia Sandu from power.The CEC cited the court, adding that under the ruling, all candidates designated by Heart of Moldova will be removed from the race. It gave the Patriotic Bloc 24 hours to adjust its lists accordingly.Sandu, a staunch pro-EU politician who often claims her opponents are Russian agents backed by organized crime, has described the Sunday elections as a make-or-break moment for Moldova. Moscow has dismissed her claims that it was secretly funding challengers to her party’s parliamentary majority as “ridiculous.”Last October, Sandu won a new term as president in what critics have described as a flawed election, in which the votes of Moldovans living in the European Union nations secured her victory.Moscow accused Chisinau of denying thousands of Moldovan citizens living in Russia access to the ballot box by seriously restricting the number of polling stations. People living in the breakaway region of Transnistria have faced major hurdles in attempting to vote as well.Irina Vlah served as the governor of Gagauzia from 2015 to 2023 and as a member of the Moldovan parliament from 2005 to 2015. Her successor as governor of the ethnic Russian and Turkic region, Evgenia Gutsul, was sentenced to seven years in prison in August on money laundering charges she denies. Like Vlah, Gutsul has also been subjected to EU-backed international sanctions.</blockquote>

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