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  • petrescatraian@libranet.deOPtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Presidential elections in Moldova
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    8 hours ago

    Update Monday, 11:50 AM local time: Ziarul de Gardă published the map of the preliminary results of the elections.

    There is also an easier to read map on r/Moldova, back on the spez site.

    With the elections coming to a close, international reactions started to flow, most of them congratulating Maia Sandu, with Emmanuel Macron even writing a message in Romanian on X (formerly known as Twitter):

    preview.redd.it/utmakul7otyd1.…

    Translation:

    I would like to congratulate Maia Sandu on her re-election as President of the Republic of Moldova. Democracy has triumphed in the face of all interference and maneuvering. France will continue to stand by Moldova on its European path

    Other leaders who congratulated Maia Sandu were Ursula von der Leyen, Roberta Metsola, as well as the exiled leader of the Belarus opposition, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

    As a personal note, I would also like to thank you for following my updates on this thread, as well as the previous one. I thought that there is too little content regarding the Romanian-speaking space here on fedi overall, hence why I decided to take the matter in my own hands. Do you have any feedback to give me on this? Perhaps you’re just as unsatisfied with the federation issues I have as much as I am. Or just write me any other nice stuff that you want 😀

    If so, I created a form below:

    nc.libranet.de/apps/forms/s/2a…

  • petrescatraian@libranet.deOPtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Presidential elections in Moldova
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    20 hours ago

    Update 11:33 PM local time:

    Maia Sandu is leading in the polls!

    This time, on the official CEC page too!

    i.postimg.cc/mDN7GLqq/image.pn…

    Still 5.95% of the votes left to process, but 20% of the diaspora votes have been counted already, and the remaining ones are most likely in favor of Maia Sandu too (they’re in Western countries, and the diaspora there is less exposed to the Kremlin narratives). Polling stations are still open in the US.

    HotNews (Ro) also says that 320,000 people voted in the Diaspora until 10 PM local time, a record figure.

    In other news, the Police is investigating a 40-year-old woman in the Ungheni county for voter corruption. Investigators say that the woman was the local leader of the Criminal Organization Șor, who paid people to vote in a certain way.

    Other cases of voter corruption were recorded in Chișinău (6), as well as the counties of Cantemir (1), Nisporeni (1), Rîșcani (1), Rezina (2), Anenii Noi (2), Orhei (2), Glodeni (1), Leova (1), Soroca (1), Șoldănești (1), Ungheni (1), Căușeni (1), Fălești (1), Hăncești (1), Ștefan Vădă (1) and in the autonomous territorial unit of Găgăuzia (1).

    In Russia, Moldova opened just 2 polling stations, both in Moscow, citing security concerns. Ballot papers finished a little before 9 PM, when the vote was officially closed. People were angry, some chanting Down with Maia Sandu (in Romanian) (Source).

  • petrescatraian@libranet.deOPtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Presidential elections in Moldova
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    1 day ago

    Update 6:50 PM local time: 1,526,359 people have voted so far, meaning 50.09% of every person who has the right to vote. Previously, at 5:43 PM, the servers of the Central Elections Commission were attacked, which disabled the website for the current elections.

    At 4:58 PM, a man aged 68 from Dochia county called the police after he was promised 1600 MDL to him by a 43 year old woman in order to vote against a certain candidate (according to the Moldovan police). The woman also promised his wife 2700 MDL for the same reason.

    The police searched the woman and found 24,000 MDL, as well as lists of people, as well as flyers and other materials containing messages calling to vote against the candidate. The woman was held in custody for 72 hours.

    At 1:49 PM, the Police reported activities of carrying people between multiple polling stations in Russia, Belarus, Azerbaidjan and Türkyie.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.deOPtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Presidential elections in Moldova
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    1 day ago

    The main post doesn’t update on Beehaw side, so I’ll leave these in the comments:

    Update 5:43 PM local time: This is my first update for today, as I’m now in the train and I have service. At 2:00 PM local time, presence reached and surpassed 1 mil. people. Also, at 11:20 AM local time it was reported that there was a massive car queue on the Rezina bridge, coming from Transnistria. The bridge was subsequently closed by the police due to a bomb threat. Multiple bomb threats were reported outside the country as well, at polling stations in UK, at Liverpool and Northampton, and in Frankfurt, Germany. The Liverpool polling station was closed permanently, and voters were guided to go to Manchester.

    Update 6:50 PM local time: 1,526,359 people have voted so far, meaning 50.09% of every person who has the right to vote. Previously, at 5:43 PM, the servers of the Central Elections Commission were attacked, which disabled the website for the current elections.

    At 4:58 PM, a man aged 68 from Dochia county called the police after he was promised 1600 MDL to him by a 43 year old woman in order to vote against a certain candidate (according to the Moldovan police). The woman also promised his wife 2700 MDL for the same reason.

    The police searched the woman and found 24,000 MDL, as well as lists of people, as well as flyers and other materials containing messages calling to vote against the candidate. The woman was held in custody for 72 hours.

    At 1:49 PM, the Police reported activities of carrying people between multiple polling stations in Russia, Belarus, Azerbaidjan and Türkyie.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.deOPtoPolitics@beehaw.org•While you're all nervous about the US election, I am nervous about the Moldovan EU referendum
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    14 days ago

    Looks like the post did not update on Beehaw’s end since this morning. So here are all the updates I wrote this entire day to the OP:

    Edit 11:25 AM local time: The website seems to be down for me, but one of my friends can see the results. It is 50.26% for the yes camp!

    Update 12:13 AM local time: Website still down, but there is an alternative source here: agora.md/alegeri-2024/rezultat… There is also a YouTube stream of the official webpage here: youtube.com/live/SJPX0Nfwllo. Almost all reports have been processed (2200 out of 2219) and the score is 50.31% yes and 49.69% no. Nice. Also, the delay on my node is killing me, is my node on the same server as the elections’ website? lol.

    Update 12:30 AM local time: The president of the Central Election Commission declared that there were some frauds recorded at the election: people stealing their ballots that should have been cast, or picturing them, paying voters etc. Eugen Tomac, Romanian MEP of Moldovan origin, declared at Digi24 (same report) that “Russia thrown […] enormous resources and made available its entire state apparatus. […] The results should be regarded with this restrain, regarding the extreme involvement of Russia in the effort to confiscate these elections. And it is only the beginning.”

    Update 1:55 PM local time: agora.md seems to throw a 404 error, but the YouTube stream is still going. There is also this site: bertybuttface.github.io/dova/. 50.42% of people have voted in favor of the Constitution modification, which means the referendum has already passed. Russia, as expected, is angry about the results, already. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯.

    Update 7:30 PM local time: Official website recovered a few hours earlier, but I didn’t want to edit this thread any further. This is the final edit:

    Maia Sandu and the pro-european camp won!

    It was a huge effort on behalf of her team, not just for her own campaign, but also for convincing the regular folks to vote in this historic referendum. Seems like in any Romanian state, the diaspora is the one that comes to the rescue and make the right choice for us. It’s a pitty, but whatever gets us on the right track is more than welcome. The fight is not over, but this is a huge milestone on Moldova’s way to the European Union, to progress, prosperity and to secured freedom. The victory is a marginal one, with only 12,000 votes difference, but it’s still a reason to celebrate. It is a proof that every single vote counts and can be the one that makes the difference. So go out there and vote at the next elections if you can.

    Below are the final results of the referendum (it says preliminary, but all the votes have been counted):

    And here are the results for the elections:

    As you can see, at the presidential elections there is a solid victory of Maia Sandu (Action and Solidarity Party or PAS, pro-EU), with 42.45%. At a huge distance below, there is Stoianoglo Alexandr (Socialists, pro-Russia), with 25.98% of the votes. The other two candidates that won over 5% of the votes are also pro-Russian. All three of them make up for 45.15% of the votes, which might go to Stoianoglo. The second round of these elections will be interesting to watch. Thank you for staying with me.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.detoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•How to get started with pirating music (mp3s)?
    1·
    3 months ago

    @clark@midwest.social wrote:

    Where should I store the music?

    I just store it in the music folder of every device I own. I have a 1 TB hard drive on my PC and my phone has 128 GB of internal storage, with an SD card slot.

    I haven’t any clue about self-hosting. I’m running GrapheneOS, is it enough to save the songs in Files and play in an app like Auxio? Maybe sync with SyncThing?

    Yes. Any music player will generally prompt you to scan for your files upon first opening.

    Edit: didn’t notice your first question. Well, I just get them from everywhere, lol. If you have a tracker that you use for anything, be sure that there will be some music there. If you cannot find it, then just refer to the FMHY’s list of various tools to download music from just about anywhere: Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud you name it. I also buy music from Bandcamp as it supports downloading it directly for an unlimited amount of times and in any of the most popular formats, or just go to the band’s concert and buy their album directly. This way you’re also supporting the artists directly with your money (if you care about it).