Overview

• With 99.03% of protocols tallied, the Central Election Commission’s preliminary count gives PAS 49.85% and 53 seats, a loss of 10 mandates from the prior term.
• The Patriotic Bloc secures 24.36% and 27 seats, Alternative 8.02% and 9 seats, Our Party 6.24% and 6 seats, and Democracy at Home 5.65% and 6 seats.
• Turnout exceeded 52%, and authorities declared the vote valid under Moldovan law.
• Igor Dodon alleged falsification at foreign polling stations and called a peaceful protest in central Chisinau for September 29.
• Transnistrian officials reported only 12 polling sites and about 12,000 voters out of roughly 270,000 eligible, appealed to the OSCE, and the CEC annulled the ‘Great Moldova’ party’s registration on election day, invalidating its ballots.