Moldova’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has barred another opposition party from participating in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, in what critics say is part of an escalating campaign of political persecution by the pro-Western government.
The CEC voted to annul the registration of the Greater Moldova (Moldova Mare) party and remove all of its candidates from the ballot, commission chair Angela Karaman announced on Friday. Six were in favor of the measure and there were three abstentions.
Party leader Victoria Furtuna has condemned the ruling as “unjust” and vowed to challenge it in the Court of Appeal. She argued that she was given just…
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