CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — The leader of Moldova’s pro-European ruling party is blunt about the stakes in Sunday’s tense parliamentary election: a continued path toward the European Union or a country brought back under Russia’s orbit.

“The results of these elections will define the country’s future not just for the next four years, but for many, many years ahead,” Igor Grosu, the president of the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity, or PAS, told The Associated Press on Thursday in the capital, Chisinau.

The party he leads has held a strong parliamentary majority since 2021, but risks losing it in Sunday’s vote to elect a new 101-seat legislature, with no other viable pro-European alternatives on the ballot but several Russia-friendly ones.

Grosu, who is also the speaker of parliament,

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