| − | Maia Sandu was elected president in November 2020 primarily on the strength of [[mail-in]] ballots from ex-patriots living abroad who comprise 15% of the electorate.<ref>https://theworld.org/stories/2020-11-30/how-moldovas-diaspora-helped-secure-win-nations-first-woman-president</ref> Sandu succeeded [[Igor Dodon]]. On May 24, 2022, as Sandu was being courted by NATO and [[the West]] to use Moldova as a staging area for aggression against Transnistria, Sandu had Dodon arrested. Dodon advocated maintaining Moldova's strict constitutional provision for neutrality. The arrest sparked mass protests in the street against the Sandu regime.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/05/31/moldova-returned-to-the-practice-of-crime-in-power/</ref> The [[globalist]]-controlled [[Western alliance|Western media]], namely ''[[Reuters]]'', however reported [[fake news]] and [[propaganda]] that the protests were in support of the Maia regime and against Dodon. The protesters in fact carried the national flag of Romania in support of sovereignty, independence, and neutrality, and not the flag of globalism, the [[European Union]], and NATO which Sandu advocates. Sandu's approval ratings have dropped precipitously since the outbreak of the [[Russia-Ukraine war]] and her flirtation with the NATO West. | + | Maia Sandu was elected president in November 2020 primarily on the strength of [[mail-in]] ballots from ex-patriots living abroad who comprise 15% of the electorate.<ref>https://theworld.org/stories/2020-11-30/how-moldovas-diaspora-helped-secure-win-nations-first-woman-president</ref> Sandu succeeded [[Igor Dodon]]. On May 24, 2022, as Sandu was being courted by NATO and [[the West]] to use Moldova as a staging area for aggression against Transnistria, Sandu had Dodon arrested. Dodon advocated maintaining Moldova's strict constitutional provision of neutrality. The arrest sparked mass protests in the street against the Sandu regime.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/05/31/moldova-returned-to-the-practice-of-crime-in-power/</ref> The [[globalist]]-controlled [[Western alliance|Western media]], namely ''[[Reuters]]'', however reported [[fake news]] and [[propaganda]] that the protests were in support of the Maia regime and against Dodon. The protesters in fact carried the national flag of Romania in support of sovereignty, independence, and neutrality, and not the flag of globalism, the [[European Union]], and NATO which Sandu advocates. Sandu's approval ratings have dropped precipitously since the outbreak of the [[Russia-Ukraine war]] and her flirtation with the NATO West. |