29 September 2025
(Moldovan President Maia Sandu votes in the elections. PHOTO: BBC.Ukrainian)
The pro-European party Action and Solidarity (PAS), founded by President Maia Sandu, has won the country's parliamentary elections.
This is according to the Central Election Commission of Moldova.
The second place was taken by the opposition Patriotic Electoral Bloc, one of whose leaders is former President Igor Dodon, who advocates rapprochement with Russia. This bloc received 24.26% of the vote.
It also entered the parliament:
The Moldovan authorities have repeatedly reported that Russia is trying to influence the elections in the country. Moldovan President Maia Sandu stated that Russia plans to use her country as a springboard for a war with Ukraine afterwards. Instead, former President Igor Dodon called on his supporters to take to the streets after the election to protest the results.
The day before, the Moldova Mare (Greater Moldova) party, led by Victoria Furtune, which called for the annexation of part of Odesa region to Moldova, was excluded from the election race. According to the CEC, the party used funds undeclared in financial management reports, funds from abroad, and bribed voters. The party is also accused of participating in a disguised electoral bloc together with representatives of parties whose activities were restricted, who are considered successors of the party recognized as unconstitutional.
On September 21, 2025, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy imposed sanctions against a politician from the group of Moldovan oligarch Victoria Furtune. The sanctions also targeted a number of other politicians who have repeatedly expressed a pro-Russian position, such as Evgenia Gutsul, a Bashkir from Gagauzia, who was found guilty in August by a Chisinau court of complicity in the illegal financing of the pro-Russian party Shor and sentenced to 7 years in prison in a semi-closed penal colony for women.
Кирило Бойко