Video Diana's shouting to Maia Sandu at the end of her speech in the EU Parliament. MEPs replied with a chorus
Maia Sandu. Photo: Romeo Boetzle / AFP / Profimedia
MEP Diana Şoșoaca shouted to President Maia Sandu that “Moldova is Romania”, but the gesture was not well received in the plenary of the Legislature, which just applauded the head of the Moldovan state.
“Moldova is Romania, Mrs. Maia Sandu, Moldova is Romania”, shouted Diana Şoșoaca on Tuesday, in the plenary of the European Parliament.
The observation of the SOS Romania MEP was addressed to the President of the Republic of Moldova, who had just finished a speech about the importance of democracy and threat of Russia, received with applause in the Plenum of the Strasbourg Legislature.
Diana Şoșoaca's cry was received with a chorus of disapproval and huids, according to images broadcast by the EU audiovisual service and even Diana Şoșoaca on her Facebook page.
“It's true, it's history,” said shock, responding to the disapproval around.
She also received a warning from an institution's official. “It's my right to say,” the driver replied.
Maia Sandu said on Tuesday that the Republic of Moldova is the target of a hybrid attack from Russia, which intends to take control of this country and use it as a platform against Ukraine and the European Union.
“Russia has unleashed its entire arsenal of hybrid attacks. The elections are the battlefield,” said the president of the Republic of Moldova on Tuesday, shortly before the parliamentary poll of September 28.
Sandu stressed that the elections “will be the most significant in the history (country)”.
Maia Sandu, a warning in the European Parliament: “The Kremlin's goal is clear. To put on Moldova and use it against Ukraine and EU”
The next fight, said the head of state, is that of parliamentary elections.
“Today we are facing a hybrid war on an unmatched scale. The Kremlin's goal is clear. To put on Moldova through electoral engineers, to use it against Ukraine and to make a hybrid attack platform against the EU,” said Maia Sandu.
She told European allies that the fate of the Republic of Moldova and the European Union are connected.
“If our democracy cannot be protected, then no democracy in Europe is safe,” said Sandu.
