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  • In

    Votes: 688 67.9%

  • Out

    Votes: 325 32.1%
  • Total voters
    1,013
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Skills for Care report: international recruitment helps social care workforce grow – but domestic recruitment and retention struggles persist

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However, these positive statistics are mainly due to the record level of international recruitment in 2023/24 and the sector is still struggling with domestic recruitment and retention. The year saw 105,000 international recruits starting direct care providing roles in the independent sector and the number of people in the workforce with a British nationality shrinking by 30,000. Over the two years since March 2022, 185,000 international recruits joined and the number of British workers fell by 70,000.
 
Rita_Poon said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Moldova election: Pro-EU leader wins despite alleged Russian meddling

Maia Sandu said she would be president for all, after a run-off against a rival backed by a pro-Russian party.
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Basically won the election on the diaspora vote, Moldovans voting who live in Moldova narrowly voted for the opposition party.

Certain elements to point out, Moldova didn't open polling stations in Transnistria - who are legally allowed to vote, they had to travel to Moldova to vote - population 365,000 and obviously pro Russian, they also sent only a limited amount of Ballots to both Belarus and Russia, both of whom have a substantial number of Moldovans residing there.

10,000 ballots sent to Russia, which has approximately 150,000 Moldovans there and voting stations only in Moscow - they ran out of Ballots - several thousand outside the stations left with no option to vote.

Also the diaspora vote was only counted AFTER the vote had been counted from internal voting. So the exact numbers were known prior.

If this type of thing happened to a none EU friendly politician I can guarantee the west would be up in arms about the legitimacy of the election result.
 
Rita_Poon said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Moldova election: Pro-EU leader wins despite alleged Russian meddling

Maia Sandu said she would be president for all, after a run-off against a rival backed by a pro-Russian party.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Caught this earlier - positive news in difficult times.

I see that Angelica Caraman, the Chairwoman of the CEC, has reported that bomb threats were received at six polling stations located abroad in Brașov, Bucharest, Frankfurt, Kaiserslautern, Northampton, and Liverpool. It appears that the threat to Liverpool saw the polling station moved to Manchester.

This follows warnings of Russian attempts to manipulate the vote.

www.politico.eu

Moldova warns of Russian ‘disruptive’ moves against overseas voting in Sunday’s runoff

Moscow’s “disruptive activities” could include fake bomb threats, according to documents obtained by Welt am Sonntag.
www.politico.eu www.politico.eu
 
bluestevon said:
Basically won the election on the diaspora vote, Moldovans voting who live in Moldova narrowly voted for the opposition party.

Certain elements to point out, Moldova didn't open polling stations in Transnistria - who are legally allowed to vote, they had to travel to Moldova to vote - population 365,000 and obviously pro Russian, they also sent only a limited amount of Ballots to both Belarus and Russia, both of whom have a substantial number of Moldovans residing there.

10,000 ballots sent to Russia, which has approximately 150,000 Moldovans there and voting stations only in Moscow - they ran out of Ballots - several thousand outside the stations left with no option to vote.

Also the diaspora vote was only counted AFTER the vote had been counted from internal voting. So the exact numbers were known prior.

If this type of thing happened to a none EU friendly politician I can guarantee the west would be up in arms about the legitimacy of the election result.
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Is it possible to get a clean vote though. If you have at least two "sides" from outside who will take measures to get their preferred outcome.

One side arranges to "accidentally" exclude those votes and the other side cries foul.

The other side does whatever they do, and their opposite equally cries foul.

Obviously being from the west we hear more about one side of that discussion.

How does a country in that region ever really get away from this dance.
 
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