Top 3 parliamentary parties

The party that has held the power in Moldova since 2021 is called the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS). In the elections of 2021, PAS gained 52,8% and was able to rule alone as the parliamentary majority with 63 seats for the past 4 years. This party is oriented towards the West and its main goal, as it claims, is to integrate Moldova into the European Union. The most visible representative of this party is the current Moldovan President, Maia Sandu, who founded PAS and was its leader prior to her first presidency in 2020 followed by her second which started in 2024. Based on its program and statements, PAS can be considered as a liberally conservative party that is trying to close up the ties of Moldova and the pro-Russian circles and follow the European standards in order to gain its membership in the EU over the course of the following decade.

Patriotic Electoral Bloc (BEP), a highly pro-Russian and anti-European bloc, consists of 4 leftist parties, one of which got banned just days before the elections. This bloc was created before the elections in 2025, and its predecessor before the July 2025 elections used to be the Bloc of Communists and Socialists. BEP presented the greatest danger for the electoral process, while the party had the potential to manipulate the results, as its main representatives have a history of collaborating with the Russian state. Led by former president of Moldova Igor Dodon, who is also the leader of the Socialist Party, it contains Communist Party with Vladimir Voronin, Future of Moldova Party, which is a populist and leftist party led by Vasile Tarlev and as the forth, the one that did not participate in these elections, Heart of Moldova led by the former Gagauzian governor, Irina Vlah. All of these figures were members of some executive or legislature body in Moldova or its autonomous regions and are all connected to collaborating with the Russian regime and its influence over Moldovan internal politics.

Another new party, or rather a bloc of parties, is the Bloc Alternativa, which profiles itself as a centre-left party with intentions towards European integration, strengthening the rule of law, social justice and a democratic system which will guarantee real freedom, fairness and security. However, its main representatives also have a history of following the pattern of very anti-European narratives. Its leader, Ion Ceban, the current mayor of Moldova’s capital, Chisinau, is not permitted to enter the Schengen Area, which was declared by Romania, as he poses a threat to national security, although this decision did not have an official public reasoning. Ceban was also a member of Parliament in three legislatures under the Communist and Socialist Parties. Another important figure of Alternativa is Alexandr Stoianoglo, who used to be Prosecutor General in Moldova and was a Socialist candidate in the 2024 Moldovan presidential elections, losing to Maia Sandu in the second round. His presidential campaign, although stating to be pro-European, was also declaring political connections to Russia as well as the EU. Other influential faces of the Alternativa bloc had apparent and proved ties to Russia in one way or another as well.

Results of the elections

On the 28^th September 2025, Moldovans have chosen to follow on their path towards the EU, as the pro-European PAS has been re-elected by getting their vote from 50,2% of all registered voters, meaning that for the following 4 years, it will be able to rule the country by itself with 55 seats of 101 in the Parliament. The number of seats is smaller than in the elections of 2021, but still, the results are better than Europe dared to hope. This shows that the distance between Chisinau and Moscow keeps growing, while its close relations with Brussels seem to be continuously growing.

This relief for the pro-European bloc has come at a time of some kind of uncertainty within all whole Europe, as even the countries of NATO cannot be sure if Russia is planning a conventional war against them in the near future, overlooking the hybrid war, which has been happening, without us properly addressing it. For a small country, such as Moldova, it is important that it continues on its pathway towards the EU, because by itself, it would be greatly vulnerable to bigger actors, who intend to take their control back, which, in the case of Russia, is not being hidden anymore. Although the Patriotic Electoral Bloc was by its polling estimates gaining at times more percents than the PAS, in reality its results have not come even close to the PAS by gaining 24,2% of votes. BEP and its representatives are also being accused of cooperating with Moscow to manipulate the elections and influence the voters by paying them to choose differently than they intended to. These problems are to be addressed, in the face of pressure from the Government and fear of interference from Russia; however, even if proven true, the people of Moldova chose democracy and their future in the European Union, which is the most important substantiality.