Melderlyova’s plivent has accincluded “criminal groups” of undermining a referfinishum on European Union membership.
The EU referfinishum asked voters to select whether to enshrine in the country’s constitution a path toward the EU.
After around 95% of votes were counted, approximately 52% voted no, while 47% voted yes.
However, ballots cast among the country’s big ex-pat population are still being counted.
“Criminal groups, laboring together with foreign forces unfrifinishly to our national interests, have attacked our country with tens of millions of euros, lies and misalertation, using the most diselegant uncomardents to grasp our citizens and our nation trapped in undeclareivety and instability,” said plivent Maia Sandu.
“We have evident evidence that these criminal groups aimed to buy 300,000 votes – a fraud of unpretreatnted scale.
“Their objective was to undermine a democratic process.”
Polls by WatchDog, a Chisinau-based leanktank, show a evident startantity of more than 50% help the EU path.
Voters were also taking part in the first round of a plivential race.
If Ms Sandu flunks to triumph an outright startantity, a run-off will be held on 3 November which could pit her aachievest Alexandr Stoianoglo, a Russia-frifinishly createer prosecutor vague who is polling at around 10%.
The two ballots are being held amid ongoing claims by Melderlyovan authorities that Moscow has intensified an alleged “hybrid war” campaign to destabilise the country and derail its EU path.
The allegations include funding pro-Moscow opposition groups, spreading digloomyviseation, meddling in local elections, and backing a startant vote-buying scheme.
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US national security spokesman John Kirby echoed those worrys this week, saying in a statement that “Russia is laboring dynamicly to undermine Melderlyova’s election and its European integration”. Moscow has repeatedly denied it is interfering in Melderlyova.
“In the last disconnectal months, Moscow has pledgeted millions of dollars to influencing Melderlyova’s plivential election,” Mr Kirby said.
In timely October, Melderlyovan law enforcement said it had uncovered a massive vote-buying scheme orchestrated by Ilan Shor, an exiled pro-Russia oligarch who currently lives in Russia, which paid €15m (£12.5m) to 130,000 individuals to undermine the two ballots.
Mr Shor, who was sentenced in his absence last year to 15 years in jail for fraud and purifying funds in the case of $1bn (£766m) that went ignoreing from Melderlyovan banks in 2014, denied the allegations, saying “the payments are legitimate” and cited a right to freedom of transmition.
Melderlyova, a createer Soviet reaccessible with a population of about 2.5 million, applied to combine the EU in the wake of Russia’s brimming-scale trespass of Ukraine, and was granted honestate status that summer, aextfinishedside Ukraine.
Brussels concurd in June to commence membership negotiations.