The Moldovan president says she is in favor of reunification with Romania
Chisinau – “If we had a referendum, I would vote for reunification with Romania,” said Maia Sandu, adding however that she noted from the polls “that there is no majority today” in Moldova in favor of such a proposal.
The pro-European Moldovan leader, elected for a second term in 2024, regularly denounces Russian interference in her small, mostly Romanian-speaking republic of 2.4 million inhabitants, a former Soviet state located between Romania and Ukraine.
She stated in an interview on the British podcast “The Rest is Politics” that it was becoming “increasingly difficult for a small country like Moldova to survive as a democracy, a sovereign country, and of course to resist Russia.”
Under the presidency of Ms Sandu, whose party won the legislative elections in September, Moldova submitted its application to join the EU, which she described as a “more realistic” goal during this interview.
Accession negotiations began in 2025. (13 January 2026)
