Overview

• Official tallies after processing 99.65% of protocols give Action and Solidarity (PAS) a slim majority with about 54 seats, with five political forces entering parliament.
• The Central Election Commission reported 236 election‑day violations, citing incidents such as banned agitation, ballot photographing, suspected vote buying, and obstruction of election officials.
• Igor Dodon’s Patriotic bloc filed appeals and staged a brief protest in central Chișinău, alleging fraud at overseas polling sites and claiming the opposition led domestically, as police reported minor incidents and prior detentions of suspected coordinators.
• Overseas voting strongly favored PAS (reported at roughly 80%), while access was uneven with 301 foreign polling stations but only two in Russia and 12 in Transnistria, a distribution critics say shaped the outcome.
• The vote’s fallout widened regional tensions as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a Transnistrian settlement is now hard to envisage under Moldova’s current leadership, while some Western commentators publicly disputed claims of Russian interference.