Moldovans vote in a presidential election and a referendum on joining the European Union, with fears of Russian meddling amid the war in neighbouring Ukraine. The elections are a test of the former Soviet republic's pro-European turn under incumbent President Maia Sandu, who is seeking a second term.
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00:00I voted for a better future for the children, for the grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
00:05To have the right to go to a free country.
00:10I choose a decisive direction for the future of the country,
00:17because we can no longer claim neutrality.
00:22We have to participate in a larger family, because we are small and we have to be intelligent.
00:30I don't understand why in our country it is so aggressive to impose certain values that we are not foreigners.
00:36It's not like that in their country.
00:38In their country, it's not the European Day, which it is in our country.
00:42They don't celebrate, they don't have the idea that it's a celebration.
00:45And there are times when this cultural aggressiveness stresses me out.
00:51I don't want my child to impose something that is strange for him.
00:59Here we have to decide on the fate of Moldova.
01:04We have a road, we have a road in Europe.
01:07We are no longer on the spot, we are no longer marginalized by the gas,
01:10we are no longer with the light, we are no longer even with the war on our shoulders.
01:15We are worried, we are worried, we want freedom.