2021 Moldovan parliamentary election

2021 Moldovan parliamentary election

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All 101 seats in Parliament 51 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	48.41% ( 0.83pp) [1]
Party Leader % Seats +/– PAS Igor Grosu 52.80 63 +48 BECS Vladimir Voronin 27.17 32 −3 ȘOR Ilan Shor 5.74 6 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Winning party by territorial election commission Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Aureliu Ciocoi (acting) Independent Natalia Gavrilița PAS

Snap parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 11 July 2021. Following the resignation of Ion Chicu, the position of Prime Minister became vacant, with the Parliament being obligated to form a new government within three months. After the expiration of the constitutionally mandated period and two failed attempts to win parliamentary approval for the proposed cabinets, the Constitutional Court ruled on 15 April that the circumstances justifying a dissolution of the parliament were met. President Maia Sandu signed the decree dissolving the Parliament on 28 April and snap parliamentary elections were called on.

The Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) received 52.80% of the vote and won 63 seats, obtaining a majority in the 101-seat parliament. The alliance Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists (BECS) received 27.17% of the vote and won 32 seats, while the Șor Party received 5.74% of the votes and won six seats. No other party or alliance reached the electoral threshold required to win a seat. ^[1]

The Constitutional Court of Moldova recognized the election results on 23 July. ^[2]

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) assessed the elections as being competitive and well-run despite the inadequate handling of election disputes and campaign finance issues. ^[3] The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) noted that the procedure was held in line with the requirements of the Electoral Code. The CIS observers did not report any violations that could influence the results of the elections. ^[4]

Background

Main article: 2019 Moldovan constitutional crisis

The Constitution of Moldova mandates that a government must be formed within three months of official results of parliamentary elections being proclaimed by the Constitutional Court. The results of the 24 February 2019 elections were confirmed on 9 March. On 8 June a coalition government led by Maia Sandu was formed by the Party of Socialists (PSRM) and the ACUM alliance. However, the Democratic Party (PDM) petitioned the Constitutional Court, claiming that the government had not been formed in time. The Court interpreted the three-month deadline as 90 days, which meant the deadline had been 7 June, and concluded that snap elections should be held. The following day the Court suspended President Igor Dodon (a former PSRM leader) from exercising his presidential powers and duties for failing to dissolve parliament, and appointed former prime minister Pavel Filip of the PDM as acting president. Filip subsequently issued a decree calling for early elections for 6 September. ^[5]

Dodon and the PSRM–ACUM coalition called the process illegal. The governments of Russia, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom all recognised the newly-formed Sandu cabinet as the legitimate government. On 14 June Filip stepped down and allowed the PSRM–ACUM government to take office. However, the new government was subsequently ousted in a motion of no confidence in Parliament on 12 November in a dispute over a draft law assumed by the government to delegate a part of its plenary powers to the Prime Minister to propose a "shortlist" with the candidates for Prosecutor General's position. ^{[6] [7]}

Another new PSRM–PDM government, headed by Ion Chicu, was formed on 14 November 2019. ^[8] The Democratic Party left the coalition on 7 November 2020, during presidential elections, to allow the formation of a new government under the new president. ^[9] The Chicu cabinet remained in office as a minority government, supported by the Șor Party, with the PDM ministers replaced by independents. Former prime minister and PAS (ACUM) leader Maia Sandu was elected president on 15 November 2020. Chicu resigned as Prime Minister on 23 December, hours ahead of a PAS-sponsored motion of no confidence. ^[10]

Sandu planned to appoint Natalia Gavrilița to the position of Prime Minister twice in order to trigger early elections, as under the constitution of Moldova, two failures of Parliament to approve a new government within 45 days of the first request will lead to the dissolution of parliament. ^[11] Sandu first nominated Gavrilita to the position on 27 January 2021, ^[11] with her candidacy being unanimously voted down by the parliament on 11 February. ^[12] The PSRM and its allies then proposed Mariana Durleșteanu for the position with the support of 54 of 101 MPs, but Sandu instead re-nominated Gavrilița on 11 February 2021. ^[13] However, the Constitutional Court ruled on 23 February 2021 that Sandu should not have nominated Gavrilita twice. ^[13] Sandu nominated Igor Grosu to the position on 16 March after Durleșteanu withdrew her candidacy. ^{[14] [15]}

Grosu failed to get his government approved due to the socialist-led opposition boycotting the vote, which resulted in the vote failing due to a lack of a quorum. ^[16] The two failed attempts made early parliamentary elections possible, ^[17] and Sandu asked the Constitutional Court to verify the constitutionality of dissolving parliament and holding snap elections. ^[18] However, on 31 March Parliament voted to impose a 60-day state of emergency, during which a snap election could not be held, to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[18] On 15 April the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of dissolving parliament. ^[19] On 28 April the Constitutional Court declared the state of emergency voted by the Parliament on 31 March unconstitutional as the Decision of Parliament which instituted it was adopted in violation of the rules of procedure, having failed to establish why exactly the executive need extended powers. ^[20] Later the same day, president Maia Sandu signed the dissolution decree of the Parliament and established the snap parliamentary elections to be held on 11 July 2021. ^[21]

Electoral system

The 101 seats in the Parliament are elected by party-list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency. An electoral list may contain 51 to 103 candidates. The nationwide electoral threshold varies depending on the type of list; for single parties or organisations it is 5%; for an electoral bloc of two or more parties it is 7%. For independent candidates the threshold is 2%. ^[22]

Parties and coalitions

This is a list of the parties that were represented in the parliament before the elections and the parties that submitted their list for participating in it. ^[23]

Party		Main ideology	Leader	Seats prior to elections
	Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists (BECS)	Socialism	Vladimir Voronin & Igor Dodon	37
	Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS)	Liberalism	Igor Grosu	15
	Dignity and Truth Platform Party (PPDA)	Liberalism	Andrei Năstase	11
	Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM)	Social democracy	Pavel Filip	10
	Șor Party	National conservatism	Ilan Shor	7
	Pro Moldova	Liberal conservatism	Andrian Candu	7
	National Unity Party (PUN)	Unionism	Octavian Țîcu	0
	Electoral Bloc "Renato Usatîi" (BERU)	Russophilia	Renato Usatîi	No seats
	Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR)	Unionism	Vlad Bilețchi
	Democracy at Home Party (PPDA)	Unionism	Vasile Costiuc
	Ecologist Green Party (PEV)	Green politics	Vladimir Braga
	Party of Law and Justice (PLD)	Christian democracy	Nicolae Alexei
	New Historical Option (NOI)	Social democracy	Svetlana Chesari
	We Build Europe At Home Party (PACE)	Liberalism	Gheorghe Cavcaliuc
	Party of Development and Consolidation of Moldova (PDCM)	Pro-Europeanism	Ion Chicu
	Party of Regions of Moldova (PRM)	Russophilia	Alexandr Kalinin
	Collective Action Party – Civic Congress (PAC-CC)	Democratic socialism	Iurie Muntean
	Working People's Party (POM)	Social democracy	Serghei Toma
	People's Power Party (PPO)		Ruslan Codreanu
	MPS		Ilie Donica
	New Party (PNOI)		Vladimir Dachi
	Patriots of Moldova (PPM)		Mihail Garbuz
	Party of Change (PS)		Ștefan Gligor
	Veaceslav Valico**		Veaceslav Valico

* = Note: Pro Moldova did not participate in the 2021 parliamentary election
** = Independent politician

Opinion polls

See also: Opinion polling for the 2021 Moldovan parliamentary election

   PSRM

   BECS

   ACUM

   PAS

   PPPDA

   PDM

   ȘOR

   PCRM

   PN

Results

OSCE Special Co-ordinator Ditmir Bushati observing election procedures in Chișinău

Closing of polling station in Chișinău

The Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) received 52.80% of the vote and won an absolute majority in parliament, taking 63 of the 101 seats, an increase of 48. President of Moldova Maia Sandu stated after the election: "I hope that today is the end of a hard era for Moldova, I hope today is the end of the reign of thieves over Moldova." ^[24]

The Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists (BECS) won 32 seats, a loss of three compared to the previous elections. President of the Party of Socialists (PSRM) Igor Dodon stated after the election: "I appeal to the future deputies of the new parliament, we must not allow a new political crisis in Moldova. It would be nice to have a period of political stability." ^[25]

The Șor Party (ȘP) became the third and smallest one with parliamentary representation, obtaining six seats with 5.74% of the vote and thereby conserving its parliamentary status from the previous legislature. ^[24]

On 23 July, the Constitutional Court of Moldova confirmed the results of the election. ^[2]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Party of Action and Solidarity	774,753	52.80	63	+48
	Bloc of Communists and Socialists	398,675	27.17	32	−3
	Șor Party	84,187	5.74	6	−1
	Electoral Bloc "Renato Usatîi"	60,100	4.10	0	0
	Dignity and Truth Platform	34,184	2.33	0	−11
	Democratic Party of Moldova	26,545	1.81	0	−30
	Democracy at Home Party	21,255	1.45	0	0
	We Build Europe At Home Party	18,781	1.28	0	New
	Common Action Political Party — Civil Congress	11,269	0.77	0	New
	Alliance for the Union of Romanians	7,216	0.49	0	New
	National Unity Party	6,646	0.45	0	New
	Party of Development and Consolidation	6,315	0.43	0	New
	Hope Professionals' Movement Party	2,814	0.19	0	0
	Party of Change	2,452	0.17	0	New
	People's Power Party	1,613	0.11	0	New
	Working People's Party	1,467	0.10	0	New
	Party of Law and Justice	1,444	0.10	0	New
	New Historical Option	1,431	0.10	0	New
	Party of Regions of Moldova	1,264	0.09	0	0
	Ecologist Green Party	1,202	0.08	0	0
	Patriots of Moldova	892	0.06	0	New
	New Party	197	0.01	0	New
	Independents	2,514	0.17	0	−3
Total		1,467,216	100.00	101	0
Valid votes		1,467,216	99.07
Invalid/blank votes		13,749	0.93
Total votes		1,480,965	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,052,603	48.51
Source: CEC, PACE

Voter turnout

Election year	Time
	9:30	12:30	15:30	18:30	21:00
2019	5.90%	24.00%	37.40%	45.70%	49.10%
2020	5.50%	19.60%	33.00%	42.50%	45.60%
2021	8.80%	23.70%	33.20%	41.90%	48.30%
Source: alegeri.md

Results by administrative-territorial unit

No.	Administrative-territorial unit	%	PAS	BECS	ȘOR	BERU	PPDA	PDM	AUR
1	Chișinău	47.68	56.77	28.40	3.63	2.36	2.16	0.72	0.67
2	Bălți	42.82	27.34	40.17	3.89	22.69	0.99	0.65	0.30
3	Anenii Noi	42.68	50.17	29.51	5.67	2.59	3.03	3.30	0.54
4	Basarabeasca	37.34	40.76	35.31	7.57	4.73	2.02	2.39	0.44
5	Briceni	41.29	25.49	50.77	8.82	5.95	1.52	1.78	0.21
6	Cahul	39.71	53.55	29.63	4.15	2.65	1.49	0.86	0.68
7	Cantemir	37.65	55.82	22.11	5.01	3.90	3.02	2.82	0.70
8	Călărași	42.45	60.76	19.10	4.89	1.47	3.51	4.62	0.36
9	Căușeni	42.30	52.99	26.52	5.18	1.74	3.31	3.17	0.36
10	Cimișlia	39.24	56.19	24.59	4.22	1.70	2.58	4.69	0.34
11	Criuleni	48.74	65.87	15.64	6.45	1.51	3.09	1.68	0.57
12	Dondușeni	48.19	25.90	50.70	7.59	6.95	1.79	1.33	0.46
13	Drochia	42.19	39.02	34.88	7.52	9.93	1.94	0.85	0.35
14	Dubăsari	43.85	45.16	33.08	7.42	2.32	2.31	3.42	0.44
15	Edineț	44.12	29.20	47.11	7.94	5.20	2.40	2.68	0.29
16	Fălești	43.66	36.53	31.77	6.41	15.15	1.27	4.13	0.28
17	Florești	43.47	41.07	35.09	8.72	5.94	2.26	1.02	0.30
18	Glodeni	42.56	33.08	34.02	7.85	10.39	1.79	8.09	0.37
19	Hîncești	39.94	63.87	16.90	3.09	1.93	3.43	3.62	0.55
20	Ialoveni	47.58	71.80	10.05	2.58	2.57	5.03	2.23	0.44
21	Leova	41.03	54.26	24.76	5.06	4.39	2.58	2.38	0.43
22	Nisporeni	40.58	65.95	14.49	3.22	2.26	3.64	3.02	0.59
23	Ocnița	48.80	19.17	59.55	8.22	3.83	1.10	1.27	0.34
24	Orhei	46.66	46.70	8.97	36.98	1.06	1.50	0.85	0.38
25	Rezina	47.56	48.66	26.27	11.23	2.55	4.45	1.23	0.29
26	Rîșcani	46.26	32.01	41.67	5.28	8.86	2.11	5.15	0.41
27	Sîngerei	41.37	46.15	28.89	7.98	8.60	2.20	1.07	0.31
28	Soroca	45.11	40.03	38.65	6.05	3.51	2.37	2.96	0.63
29	Strășeni	44.10	67.55	15.48	3.03	1.90	2.80	2.51	0.60
30	Șoldănești	45.72	40.64	28.79	10.43	3.21	2.83	7.48	0.36
31	Ștefan Vodă	41.63	54.11	25.09	3.89	2.32	4.75	2.98	0.57
32	Taraclia	42.30	6.52	58.05	28.24	1.24	0.24	0.72	0.31
33	Telenești	44.37	59.59	13.01	9.34	1.22	8.29	3.01	0.37
34	Ungheni	43.61	50.80	28.29	4.53	3.42	2.87	3.29	0.40
35	U.T.A. Găgăuzia	36.87	4.14	80.75	4.86	3.15	0.15	0.55	0.03
36	Transnistria		13.59	62.21	6.25	1.82	1.20	2.75	0.38
37	Diplomatic missions (Moldovan diaspora)		86.23	2.47	0.59	2.78	1.75	0.34	0.62
Total		48.41	52.80	27.17	5.74	4.10	2.33	1.81	0.49
Source: CEC

Reactions

•   Moldova: President Maia Sandu said this was "the end of the reign of thieves in Moldova. The challenges are great, people need results and must feel the benefits of a clean parliament and an honest and competent government." She called for "the energy of today's vote to transform Moldova." ^[26]
• Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova: PSRM president Igor Dodon conceded and expressed disappointment at the result, saying in a statement: "We obviously wanted a higher overall percentage." He congratulated his opponents but warned that his forces would be watching closely because it was dangerous for one party to have "the total monopoly on Moldovan politics." ^[27]

International reactions

• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: OSCE issued a statement that "Moldova's early parliamentary elections were competitive and well run despite the inadequate handling of election disputes and campaign finance issues, say international observers on a joint observation mission from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and the European Parliament (EP)." ^[3]
• Commonwealth of Independent States: Dmitry Kobitsky, head of the CIS IPA monitoring mission, said: "Members of the mission attended the vote counting and noted that this procedure was held in line with the requirements of the Electoral Code. The CIS observers did not report any violations that could influence the results of the elections". ^[28]
• Renew Europe: Renew Europe issued the statement: "Victory for democracy in Moldova! Congratulations to Moldova! This is a victory for democracy, a victory for Europe, a victory for an extraordinary woman and a victory for the Moldovan citizens who are eager for their country to finally take the path of economic, social and political reforms." ^[29]
•   Germany: Federal Minister of Defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said: "Congratulations, Maia Sandu, on the great election victory of PAS with 52,5%! This is very strong support for you and the course for reforms and the fight against corruption in the Republic of Moldova. Great news!" ^[30]
•   Latvia: Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkēvičs said: "Very convincing victory of reform and European agenda in Moldova elections. Now the real implementation of promised changes is key, Latvia is ready to provide all the necessary support to our Moldovan friends. Congratulations, Moldova!" ^[31]
•   Lithuania: Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said: "Congratulations Maia Sandu on a landslide victory of PAS in early parliamentary elections and the people of Moldova – on choosing the path of reforms, transparency & European integration. You can count on Lithuania's support!" ^[32]
•   Romania: President Klaus Iohannis said: "Congratulations to the citizens of the Republic of Moldova for their civic spirit and clear choice for reforms, the rule of law and European integration! Congratulations Maia Sandu for courage, perseverance and vision! Romania will be with the Republic of Moldova in supporting the reforms and the European course!" ^[33]
•   Slovakia: Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Korčok said: "I congratulate the people of Moldova on succesfull[sic] conduct of democratic parliamentary elections & the strong confirmation of their will to proceed on European path." ^[34]
•   Ukraine: President Volodymyr Zelensky said: "Congratulations to my colleague President of Moldova Maia Sandu on a convincing victory of democratic pro-European political forces, in particular the PAS party, in the parliamentary elections! This is an important step for a friendly on the path of reforms & European aspirations!" ^[35]

Analysis and aftermath

PAS was the first party to win an absolute majority of seats on its own since April 2009, and the first to win an absolute majority of votes since 2001. It was also the first time that neither PSRM nor PCRM won the most votes or seats since 1994. Former PAS coalition partner DA also lost all of its seats, as did the Democratic Party of Moldova (formerly connected to oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, who fled the country in 2019), which was no longer represented in parliament for the first time in over a decade. Additionally, no party with a unionist platform entered the parliament. ^{[36] [37] [38]}

On 23 July, court chairwoman Domnica Manole said in a statement: "The Moldovan Constitutional Court rules to confirm the results of the snap parliamentary elections that Moldova held on 11 July 2021, and to recognize the mandates of the parliamentmembers as valid." ^[2]

The first session of the new parliament was held on 26 July and was chaired by the oldest deputy, Eduard Smirnov. ^[39]

On 29 July, Igor Grosu (the interim leader of PAS) was elected president of the parliament. Natalia Gavrilița was appointed as Prime Minister-designate the following day. ^{[40] [41]}

On 6 August 2021, the Natalia Gavrilița-led cabinet was sworn in to office with 61 votes, all from PAS. ^[42]

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