Does Moldova’s president want unification with Romania?
"If we have a referendumย Iย wouldย vote for the unification with Romania. Look at what's happening around Moldova today. Look at what's happening in the world," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said in an interview with British podcast, The Rest is Politics, on January 11. "It is getting more and more difficult for a small country like Moldova to survive as a democracy, as a sovereign country, and of course to resist Russia," she added.
Though the podcast was over an hour long, it was this statement that really caused a stir.
During the same podcast, Sandu admitted that she was aware that a majority of Moldovans do not support unification with Romania according to pollsย and that this was why the most realistic alternative was Moldova's accession to the European Union. This isย supported by vot...