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"Survival is becoming difficult"/ Moldovan President: I would vote to join Romania

2026-01-13 13:55:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

"Survival is becoming difficult"/ Moldovan President: I would vote to

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said she would vote in favor of joining Romania, a member of the European Union and NATO, if a referendum were held. Sandu said she would do so to help protect Moldova's fragile democracy against Russian pressure.

The Moldovan president has repeatedly accused Russia of interfering in Moldova, a former Soviet republic of about 2.4 million people with a Romanian-speaking majority and a Russian-speaking minority.

"If we had a referendum, I would vote for unification with Romania. Look at what's happening in the world. It's becoming increasingly difficult for a small country like Moldova to survive as a democracy, as a sovereign country and certainly to resist Russia ," she said in an interview with the British podcast "The Rest is Politics."

About 1.5 million Moldovans have Romanian citizenship, but recent polls have shown that only about a third support reunification with Bucharest. Sandu said she accepted that most Moldovans did not support her position, adding that EU integration was a “more realistic objective.”

Its government aims for EU membership by 2030, but will have to implement tough reforms in the face of opposition from Russia. Moldova's pro-Russian socialists were in power only in 2020. Moldova, which also borders Ukraine, was part of Romania between the two world wars but was annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II. It gained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed. /CNA





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