A Dangerous Phenomenon For Any Democracy

50.4 per cent to 49.6 per cent is an awful lot tighter than the 2016 referendum in Britain was, so where are the cries for a second referendum in Moldova? The No side had been in the lead until the last minute counting of 180,000 votes from Moldovans who were already living in the EU, and thus not in Moldova, 90 per cent of whom at least allegedly voted Yes. But we are expected to believe that only five per cent of the 300,000 Moldovans living in Russia voted at all.

And yet we are also expected to believe that the size of the No vote, and the fact that Maia Sandu was going to have to face a runoff ballot for President, were due to "Russian interference". They no longer have to lose for that to be the case. They just have to get less than 100 per cent of the vote. Their pre-planned programme of repression will then be put into effect. Now into its second century, Fascism has always been what was now called centrism, but with its back to the wall.