Moldovan government reports wave of anonymous death threats across the country

Some members of election commissions, including chairpersons, secretaries and clerks are included in documents put together by police and prosecutors,

commission head Angela Caraman said in a statement

Make a choice in favour of Maia Sandu and save your life,

the audio message instructed

They have been paid for their activity, from the equivalent of 50 euros a month and up. It's not big money, but when you take into account the complicated economic and social situation in Moldova, for people with a low income, these 50 euros are important,

Barba said

I hope that the pro-European forces, that Maia Sandu will win elections, but I am worried that this victory will be achieved with a small margin,

Ludmila Barba, host of Moldovan program The European Vector, told VOA

It was like a bootcamp for them [the Kremlin] for interference and then they scaled it,

Orysia Lutsevych, deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at London's Chatham House, told VOA

It doesn't matter how people vote,

said Tudor Bejan, a retired 72-year-old construction work trainer

My opinion is that (Moldovan incumbent president) Maia Sandu didn't do anything in the last four years. I disagree with her, whether with or without her, we wouldn't feel any difference,

said a villager who did not want to be named

We will lose financial resources and the image our European partners have of us will be damaged" if Sandu does not win

said student Denis Parnao

Both the East and the West want to drag us to their side,

Maria told AFP on the streets of Chisinau

If you are offered money to vote against a candidate, refuse, otherwise you risk a fine,

loudspeakers warned shoppers in a supermarket in the capital of Chisinau, local media reported

Rumen Radevbulgarian President

Bulgarian citizens have the right to know in whose interest their institutions are working and whether someone is infiltrating the National Assembly through vote-buying, threats and racketeering,

Radev said

There can be neither bought nor forced democracy. If we accept this as normal, it means that we have given up the very idea of people’s rule,

he said