PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2025 | PAS wins more votes than in 2021, but fewer mandates; opposite trend for socialists and communists
The citizens of the Republic of Moldova elected a new Parliament on September 28. According to preliminary data from the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), this Parliament could have five factions, with one expected to hold the majority.
Although it may hold fewer seats in the upcoming Legislature, the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) was voted for by more voters in 2025 than in 2021. The situation is different for the socialists and communists, who ran as a bloc in the 2021 elections and last Sunday's, only this time together with two other parties, one of which was eliminated from the race on the last day of the electoral campaign.
Preliminary results of the September 28 election show that PAS was voted for by 792,557 voters or 50.2% and could hold 55 seats in the new Parliament. Although PAS will once again have a parliamentary majority, the number of mandates is lower than the one obtained in 2021 – 63.
However, compared to the 2021 election, the party obtained approximately 17,800 more votes – 774,753 votes four years ago, or 52.8%.
Socialists and communists, fewer votes and mandates
In addition to PAS, in the new Parliament, Vladimir Voronin's communists, as well as Igor Dodon's socialists, will also continue their activities, this time with access to Parliament through the lists of the Patriotic Electoral Bloc of Socialists, Communists, Heart and Future of Moldova.
Although stronger, the communists and socialists received fewer votes last Sunday than in 2021 – 398,675 versus 381,505, a difference of 17,170. At the same time, if they held 32 mandates in the last Parliament, they could now have only 26.
According to preliminary data presented by the CEC, the “Alternative” Bloc also has access to the Parliament, which could have a faction consisting of eight legislators, the Our Party and the “Democracy at Home” Party – with six mandates each.
An analysis by the Association for Participatory Democracy “ADEPT” shows that 64 men and 37 women, with an average age of 48 years, will enter the new Parliament.
They come from 20 of the 36 second-level administrative-territorial units, and most of them reside in Chisinau and its suburbs.
The same source calculated that 40 candidates (39.6%) entered the new Parliament with declared incomes of over one million lei last year. Most of them, 58, earned between 200 thousand and one million lei, and three – under 200 thousand lei in 2024.
The new Parliament will be formed within 30 days at the latest after the elections.
