After counting 90 percent The votes of the Pro -Education Party of Solidarity (PAS) is on the lead with approx. 45 percent. Meanwhile, the pro -Russian patriotic election block (BEP) obtained the support of less than 30 percent. voters.
Officials reserve that these are just partial results. Voting cards from the Moldovan diaspora largely counted at the end of the process.
The Central Electoral Commission calculates the results, and the initial calculations are to appear at night – although the result will be fully verified only after the supervisory authority and external observers present their arrangements on Monday morning.
Russian disinformation was to receive the victory of the pro -European option
The belt hopes to re -obtain a majority – from 2021 has 61 out of 101 places in the national parliament. The party promises to introduce the country to the EU over the next five years.
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However, officials say that the pro -Russian BEP and Alternativa, an opposition block with unclear connections, could gain thanks to the disinformation campaign and bribery controlled from Moscow.
– Russia does everything to tip the scales of these elections to its side – said Politico before the vote of Stanislav Secrier, a Moldovan advisor to national security. – We see unprecedented efforts: more money for buying votes, more disinformation based on artificial intelligence strengthened by trolls and more resources intended for organizing street violence.
“Riot planning groups”
The first official results came mainly from small towns and villagesand voices from larger cities and foreign polling stations are counted later.
Threats of placing bombs in policy abroad were reported throughout Sunday – including one that forced the evacuation of the Moldova embassy in Brussels. “The police report on groups planning riots in Chisinau, which will start tonight and during tomorrow's protest convened by the pro -Russian patriotic block,” Secreriu later wrote on the internet.
Moldovian votes in the election. Chiszynów, September 28, 2025PAP/EPA/DUMITRU Dor
Last year, a referendum on membership in the EU ended with a victory for hair, and the liberal president of Maia Sandu secured a second term, although the Kremlin was accused of interfering with the Kremlin in the election. In both cases, the votes of hundreds of thousands of Moldovans living abroad had a decisive influence on the result – Many of them in EU countries.
“One of the most consistent pro -European districts”
Dorina Baltag, a researcher from the Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs and co -founder of the Diaspory Group Noroc Olanda, said that the voices of Moldovans living abroad will also have this time “key importance, both numerical and symbolic.”
“Over the past decade, the diaspora consolidated as one of the most consistent pro -European electoral districts, with electoral mobilization, which often tilts the scales in strictly questioned races,” she said.
However, the diaspora also stood in the face of a wave of hybrid efforts aimed at influencing their voices or encouraging them to stay at home. Over 900 accounts operating as part of coordinated activities were identified, disseminating disinformation generated by artificial intelligence and associated with Russia.
According to Siegfried Muresan, a Romanian MEP, who chaired the European Parliament delegation to Moldova, “This is the last chance for Russia to influence the path of Moldova's integration with the EU. Russia knows this. This is one of the reasons why they invest so hard there. “
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