According to a report by news portal Agora.md, there were isolated incidents in today’s local elections in Moldova that are now keeping the Moldovan police busy: some voters in Chisinau and the country’s second largest city, Balti, received text messages from numbers with Austria names primary elections and that of the Pacific island state of Nauru, which specifically garnered publicity for candidates from certain parties.
In Balti, for example, the SMS announced the candidate for president of the pro-Russian opposition party Partidul Nostru (Our Party), while the SMS received in Chisinau warned that the speaker of the House Ion Ceban, who is running for a second term and who , according to the Moldovan secret service, is close to the Russian internal intelligence service FSB, will give voters nothing but “poverty and war”. In both cases, reports have already been submitted to the police.
Today, Moldovan voters are called upon to elect around 900 mayors and more than 11,000 local councilors for a four-year term.