Moldovan parliamentary election, July 2009

Moldovan parliamentary election

2009 (Apr) ← 29 July 2009 → 2010

All the 101 seats to the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova   First party Second party Third party   Leader Vladimir Voronin Vlad Filat Mihai Ghimpu Party PCRM Liberal Democratic Liberal Leader since 1994 2007 2005 Last election 60 15 15 Seats won 48 18 15 Seat change −12 +3 ±0 Popular vote 706,630 261,265 230,698 Percentage 44.76 16.55 14.61   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Marian Lupu Serafim Urechean Party Democratic AMN Leader since 2009 2003 Last election 0 11 Seats won 13 7 Seat change +13 −4 Popular vote 198,114 116,088 Percentage 12.55 7.35

Election results at district level: Communists (red) Combined opposition parties (blue)

Early parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 29 July 2009. The Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova won 48 of the 101 seats, but lost the majority they had won in the April elections.

The country's parliament, elected months earlier, was dissolved by president Vladimir Voronin on 15 June 2009, after it had twice failed to elect a new president.

Before the dissolution of the parliament, the electoral threshold was lowered from 6% to 5% and the minimum participation rate was lowered from half the electorate to a third of the electorate. A poll from mid-July gave the PCRM only 29.7%, with the combined opposition (including the Democratic Party of Moldova now led by PCRM defector Marian Lupu) at over 40%. PCRM leader Voronin did not rule out entering into a "grand coalition" with the opposition parties if the election results were inconclusive.

Five Ukrainian election observers within the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) were deported from Moldova the day before the elections. According to the expelled observers, the Central Election Commission of Moldova registered only 55 of the 140 observers from ENEMO.

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