Moldova election: blow to Kremlin as opposition candidate sweeps to victory
by Andrew Roth in Moscow from on (#5AEJG)
Maia Sandu wins presidential run-off by a landslide after vowing to fight corruption
The opposition candidate Maia Sandu has won a landslide victory in Moldova's presidential elections, easily defeating the pro-Russian incumbent, Igor Dodon.
Sandu, a former World Bank economist who has supported closer ties with the EU, won the run-off by harnessing voters' anger over a long history of political scandals and exhaustion with endemic corruption, including the theft of $1bn from Moldovan banks in 2014-15.
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