CEC reviews September 28 election results report — what’s next?
The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) is set to approve the report on the results of the parliamentary elections held on September 28, 2025, during the second half of Sunday, October 5. Once approved, this document will be sent to the Constitutional Court, which will have ten days to validate or reject the election results and the mandates of the newly elected deputies.
The Central Electoral Authority has announced two meetings for October 5. At the first meeting, which will begin at 2:00 p.m., the CEC will debate the final report on the supervision of the financing of electoral competitors' campaign for the parliamentary elections.
Subsequently, from 4:00 p.m., the CEC will examine the decision on the centralization of the results of the parliamentary elections of September 28, as well as the decision on the exclusion of political parties, electoral blocs and independent candidates from the process of assigning deputy mandates, which did not pass the minimum threshold of representation in the elections a week ago.
Other draft decisions on the agenda of the CEC meeting aim to establish the number of deputy mandates in Parliament obtained by electoral competitors, assign legislative mandates, and declare alternate candidates, based on the results of the parliamentary elections held on September 28.
The last item on the agenda concerns the approval of the Report on the results of the parliamentary elections of September 28, 2025.
Five contestants exceeded the electoral threshold
We note that, according to the final preliminary data made public by the CEC, 1,608,518 voters, or 52.21% of the total number of citizens with the right to vote, participated in the parliamentary elections on September 28.
Five electoral contestants exceeded the threshold required to enter Parliament:
Action and Solidarity Party: 50.20% or 792,557 votes (55 deputy mandates);
The "Patriotic" Electoral Bloc: 24.17% or 381,505 votes (26 mandates);
The "Alternative" Electoral Bloc: 7.96% or 125,685 votes (eight mandates);
Our Party: 6.20% or 97,852 votes (six mandates);
Party "Democracy at Home": 5.62% or 88,679 votes (six mandates).
The other 17 electoral competitors accumulated less than 1% of the votes.
The fate of the six deputy mandates obtained by the "Democracy at Home" Party is to be decided by the Constitutional Court, after the Central Electoral Commission warned this party about promoting its image through suspicious campaigns on TikTok, concealing expenses and involving foreign officials declared undesirable in the territory of the Republic of Moldova in the campaign.
National and international observers found that the parliamentary elections were competitive, took place without any special situations and, although they were marked by Russian interference, they demonstrated that the Republic of Moldova "continues to function as a democracy".
The new Parliament could be sworn in by the end of October.
The report from the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) will be submitted to the Constitutional Court, which has ten days to either validate or annul the election results and the mandates of the new deputies.
The Court's decision must be published in the Official Gazette no later than two days after it is announced.
Following this, within a maximum of 30 days from the elections, the President of the Republic of Moldova will convene the new Parliament for its inaugural session.
After the Parliament is constituted, the deputies will have no more than ten days to elect the President of the Parliament, the Vice-Presidents, and the Standing Bureau, as well as to form the parliamentary factions for the upcoming mandate.
After consulting with the newly formed factions, the President will designate a candidate for the position of Prime Minister.
The designated candidate must present the proposed list of ministers and the government program to the Parliament within 15 days.
The government will then be put to a vote in plenary and will be sworn in if it receives the approval of the majority of deputies.
