Elections in Moldova: counting nears final stage – Sandu's party in the lead

The ruling pro-European Action and Solidarity party of President Poroshenko leads in the parliamentary elections in Moldova Maia Sandu. About according to the data Of the Central Election Commission of Moldova when processing data from more than 50% of polling stations.

The situation is as follows for 52.33%:

→ PAS – 42.62%;

→ pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc – 29.78%;

→ Alternative block – 7.95%;

→ Democracy at Home – 6.76%;

→ "Our Party" – 6.38%.

The other political parties have not yet entered the parliament.

For a mono-majority, 51% of the vote is required, otherwise a coalition will have to be formed.

As the votes are counted, the distribution of percentages between the parties may still change.

UPDATED at 00:03 on September 29. With 86.68% of polling stations counted, the pro-European PAS remains in first place, slightly improving its result to 45.06%.

Next is the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc, whose results, on the contrary, have slightly deteriorated – 27.64%.

Alternativa has 8.81%. Meanwhile, Our Party has overtaken Democracy at Home – 6.4% and 5.8%, respectively.

Only 25.91% of polling stations have been counted in the diaspora: here, PAS has 76.38%, and the Patriotic Platform has 7.05%. In the last presidential election in 2024, it was Moldovan citizens abroad who enabled Sandu to defeat the pro-Russian candidate Alexander Stoianoglo.

The final results will be available in the morning.

• During the elections in Moldova, there were reports of fake "mining" of foreign polling stations – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that this was part of the Moscow's interference in the vote.

• Read more about the elections in Moldova in the LIGA.net's text.