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Make Moldova great again

Moldovans are diverse in culture, language and political preference, but united by a lack of faith in their leaders. How does that bode for a second round of presidential elections?

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“Dodon is Trump’s candidate, Sandu is Hillary’s.” Photo (c): Maxim Edwards, All rights reserved.A couple of days after the first round of Moldova’s presidential elections, I headed to a bus station outside Chișinău. I was chewing over the results, and wanted to get a sense of how the land lay beyond the Moldovan capital.

Largely flat, said the maps. Largely disillusioned, said the pundits. 

Milling around with half an hour to kill, I stopped to take a look at the Russian-language papers at a newsstand. There was little of interest.