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PAS Nears Majority as Moldova Tallies Vote Following Cyberattacks and Security Arrests

Partial results show PAS leading decisively in elections marked by cyberattacks, site outages, police warnings of unrest.

Overview

  • With 99% of protocols counted, PAS has 49.85% of the vote ahead of the Patriotic bloc at 24.36%, with Alternative, Our Party and Democracy at Home also clearing the threshold.
  • Final totals remain pending as overseas ballots are tallied, with a record 240,000-plus votes cast abroad and previous trends indicating strong diaspora support for PAS.
  • Prime Minister Dorin Recean reported multiple election‑related cyberattacks targeting CEC systems and some foreign polling operations, saying attempts were detected and neutralized in real time.
  • Government cyber agency STISC blocked the host.md platform to blunt a large attack, temporarily knocking roughly 4,000 Moldovan websites offline without disrupting balloting.
  • Moldovan police detained three suspects over an alleged plan to trigger post‑vote destabilization using pyrotechnic and flammable materials, later warning of efforts to unsettle Chișinău on September 29.