“Stop blaming citizens at home and abroad for your failures,” Chisinau Mayor Ion Ceban stated after the preliminary results of Sunday’s referendum. In a Facebook post, the mayor urged the current government to reflect on the outcome, as they had overly optimistic expectations about the poll.
“There is no ours and yours. We are whole. Stop blaming citizens at home and abroad for your failures. I have left you, in this presidential campaign, to show that you cannot. Draw your conclusions, and we will continue to work. Proud of Chisinau,” Ion Ceban wrote on Facebook.
The referendum on Moldova’s European integration into the European Union can be declared valid. According to the preliminary results, 50.42% of voters supported the inclusion in the Constitution of the article stipulating that EU membership is a strategic objective of the country. For the “NO” option – 49.58% of citizens voted.