88-year-old Maria from Transnistria wants to experience the EU before she dies

SVT’s European correspondent Christoffer Wendick is in the village of Varnita in Moldova. There, 30 polling stations are especially open to people living in the breakaway republic of Transnistria, which is on the other side of the river.

Turnout looks set to be low and by 3 p.m. only around 8,000 people from Transnistria had voted.

But one who made it to the polling station is 88-year-old Maria from Transnistria, who was born in Romania and was also a citizen of the Soviet Union.

– In the future, I want to live a little in the European Union as well, she says.

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