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Leading with the headline "Toxic Elections," the Jurnal de Chisinau (JDC) reports that early general elections to be held in the Republic of Moldova on 29 July have been fixed in advance. Citing liberal sources, the daily explains that "the ballot papers have been chemically treated, so that stamps indicating a preference for some candidates will disappear within two hours." Chemists consulted by JDC confirm that the production of ballot papers of this kind is indeed possible. One of them warns that the same method was used by the Soviets to prove the non-existence of Jesus Christ. "They showed children an image of Jesus, which would appear and disappear in the course of an oxidation-reduction reaction." The communist party in power rejects this hypothesis, and emphasizes the fact that "the ballot papers were printed in Israel, and are above suspicion."
A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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