Start in the election campaign of the Republic of Moldova. President's message Maia Sandu – Video

The President Maia Sandu urged all citizens of the Republic of Moldova to “do not be attracted into dirty schemes” of electoral corruption and to “inform correctly” from official sources, in a message that transmitted on Friday, when the election campaign for Crucial Legislative Ilections on September 28 began, News.ro reports.

“To notify the police when you witness the electoral corruption, to pay attention to all the information, the letters, the calls, the false videos with which we will be intoxicated in the next period, to help the relatives and friends to inform themselves correctly, to keep ourselves united and righteous for Moldova to come out,” and the head of the state, Moscow frequently is mixed in the country's domestic politics, fueling pro-Russian feelings in a subversive campaign meant to overthrow the government, because of its pro-European orientation.

President Maia Sandu declared at the end of July, after a meeting of the Supreme Security Council, that Russia wants to control the Republic of Moldova taking advantage of the autumn elections and prepares an unprecedented interference in the September 28 poll.

Subsequently, at the beginning of August, the pro-Russian fugitive oligarh, convicted in Moldova and refugee in Moscow, offered Moldovans monthly payments of $ 3,000 to join some anti-government protests, in an attempt to undermine the pro-European government of Moldova before parliamentary elections. The General Police Inspectorate warned that “participation in protests for payment promises is a serious violation of the law” and urged citizens not to fall into such a trap, because they risk being prosecuted.

“The fate of Moldova itself is at stake”

On Friday, the election campaign for the parliamentary elections began officially and, on this occasion, President Maia Sandu addressed a message to both electoral and citizens.

“On September 28, Moldova will choose its Parliament for the next four years, the institution in which our country will decide from now.

The president warned that democracy is subject to increasingly intense attacks from foreign forces, who, with “dirty money”, want to buy votes and set up destabilization actions: “We see how people who work open for Russia, not for Moldova, act to destroy the correctness of the elections and to undermine our future,” act “strictly in national interest” and “to serve only the citizens of the Republic of Moldova”.

The president of the country appealed to unity and courage: “Let us keep ourselves united and righteous for Moldova to come out victorious. Be brave, not to be scared of their threats. I trust Moldovans and our wisdom to defend our freedom and future,” she said.

Maia Sandu recalled that, last fall, Moldovans voted to introduce the objective of accession to the European Union in the Constitution. According to the head of state, the elections of September 28 represent “the country's chance to enter the European family of peace and development”. “We have a duty not to lose this chance,” she pointed out, after receiving Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and Donald Tusk on Wednesday, who sent pro-European messages.

Start in the election campaign

President Maia Sandu will remain without head of cabinet during the election campaign. Adrian Băluţel suspends his activity for the entire period of the election campaign to dedicate himself to the parliamentary elections on September 28. He is applying on the list of the Party Action and Solidarity (PAS), the ruling party, occupying the position 52.

The Chisinau Parliament has 101 places, and at present there is a majority step, but it will most likely not be maintained.

The opponents of the “Patriotic Electoral Block of the Socialists, the Communists Heart and Viitorul Moldovei” launched on Friday in the election campaign at the Căpriana Monastery. Under the slogan “We believe in Moldova”, leaders Igor Dodon, Vladimir Voronin, Irina Vlah and Vasile Tarlev promised to “save Moldova” from “Danger”, to obtain natural gas at at most 8 lei (Moldovan) and to promote projects for the development of villages and cities, writes the news portal.

Another opposition force, the “Alternative” block, launched its election campaign before the Parliament. European salaries, keeping peace in the country and stopping migration are some of the commitments announced by the representatives of the block. If he gets a majority in Parliament, the block aims to have “pragmatic relations with all neighbors, with all European countries, including Russia.”

The “Alternative” block was constituted at the end of January 2025 and brings together three parties: the national alternative movement, led by the mayor of the capital Ion Ceban, who was banned in Romania and the Schengen area, the “Civic Congress” party, led by the former deputy Mark Tkaciuk, a controversial personality, and the Moldovan Party, Chicu. Former prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo, the counter -candidate of Maia Sandu in the elections last autumn, who did not adhere to any party and did not make his own. The first on the list of the block in the parliamentary are the leaders “Alternative”: Ion Ceban, Alexandr Stoianoglo, Ion Chicu and Mark Tkaciuk.

Another formation that draws attention is the Moldovan National Party (PNM), led by Dragoş Galbur, which aims to “unite the Republic of Moldova with Romania and the irreversible European integration”. Dragoş Galbur is 37 years old and is a dentist. Previously, he led the Directorate of International Relations and External Assistance to the Ministry of Health of Moldova and was a medical adviser to St. Constantin Hospital in Brasov – the largest private hospital in Transylvania. There was also an MBA program in Healthcare Management at the University of Sheffield, UK.

For the parliamentary elections of September 28, 2025, 274 polling stations will be opened in the Republic of Moldova and abroad, according to the data announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC). Of these, 12 sections will be intended for voters in the localities located to the left of the Dniester, and 301 sections will serve the Diaspora. Among the countries with the most Diaspora sections are: Italy – 75 sections; Germany – 36 sections; France – 26 sections; UK – 24 sections; Romania – 23 sections and US – 22 sections.

For voters in the Russian Federation will be opened 2 sections in Moscow, and in Belarus – a section in Minsk.