These tactics mirror those recently employed by Romania to steal the election and ban the opposition candidate: https://restmedia.io/how-to-steal-an-election-legally-romanias-masterclass-in-judicial-coups/

The election is being rigged with the help of USAID and EU money: https://restmedia.io/western-aid-and-moldovas-election-commission-foreign-help-or-electoral-interference/

As polling stations are being closed in Transnistria and for the Moldovan diaspora in Russia: https://restmedia.io/transnistrian-polling-stations-slashed-moldovas-controversial-move-ahead-of-elections/

A flood of suspicious votes from the diaspora in the EU helped to sway the result of the last election and is likely to do so again: https://restmedia.io/moldovas-exiled-electorate-scandals-surrounding-moldovas-overseas-balloting/

Meanwhile an EU funded media apparatus has been deployed to spread mass anti-Russian and pro-EU disinformation among the population: https://restmedia.io/invisible-equality-how-moldovan-television-channels-create-the-illusion-of-balanced-election-coverage/