I made a small chart with a comparison of the turnout on the parliamentary elections in Moldova and Ukraine since 1994.
It turns out a very interesting pattern that, in my opinion, very well characterizes the problem, which Weber called as a problem of the legitimacy. In both countries, there are fewer people (but this is a completely another and different story) and, at the same time, the remaining people are less likely to go to the elections. It looks like a chronical diagnosis to the political elites.
* Some explanations – the dates of parliamentary elections in countries do not always coincide, so the order was designated from the first elections in 1994 to the last in 2019.
** In Moldova two electoral cycles took place in 2009 – in July and April. The graph shows the turnout in July 2009 – 58.77%, as final. Turnout in April was even lower – 57.55%.