Presidential runoff // Bomb alerts in 14 polling stations abroad on the day of the second round
The presidential runoff was overshadowed by a series of bomb alerts across various cities abroad, where polling stations were set up for the Moldovan diaspora. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), a total of 14 bomb threats were reported in 13 different cities.
Cities affected included Bologna, Paris (Montreuil), Marseille, Liverpool, Northampton, Bucharest, Brasov, Minsk, Madrid, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Kaiserslautern.
Angelica Caraman, President of the Central Electoral Commission, noted that this is the first time in the history of the elections in the Republic of Moldova that such incidents occurred at polling stations abroad.
Fortunately, the bomb threats proved to be false and the polling stations continued to activate, except for the polling station in Liverpool, which was relocated to Manchester.
