Moldovans vote for transparency

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For many people in Molodova, poverty and corruption go hand-in-hand. Earlier this month, Europe’s poorest nation elected its first female president. And she won the vote pushing a single issue: tackling corruption. And as Kyle Vass reports, the president-elect secured her victory in part thanks to the Molodvan diaspora.

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