—❗️🗳🇲🇩❌🇷🇺🇧🇾 NEW: Moldova’s police have officially stated that organized transportation of voters from Russia to Belarus was detected and is illegal under national law.

➡️ Authorities are investigating the scheme as an attempt to unlawfully influence the electoral process and have vowed swift intervention.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

—🗳🇲🇩 FACT CHECK: There are claims that the voter turnout in the Moldovan diaspora is currently about 20% higher, when compared to the 2021 parliamentary election.

❌ After conducting a fact-check using artificial intelligence, we CANNOT CONFIRM the accuracy of this information:

➡️ Official updates from Moldova’s Central Electoral Commission and news outlets show that by 10:00 local time, 20,400 diaspora votes were cast in 2025, compared to the same 8.8% turnout reached at 09:30 in the previous election (2021), but there is no clear evidence in credible reports or official numbers that the diaspora turnout is “20% higher” than 2021 at comparative times.

➡️ In fact, turnout in the general population at early hours was lower or similar to 2021, not significantly higher.

➡️ Reports do confirm a record number of diaspora polling stations (301 in 45 countries) and increased logistical support for diaspora voters in 2025, with over 46,000 overseas votes cast by 11:30—but do not specify a 20% increase over 2021 figures or suggest such a striking statistical difference.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

—🗳🇲🇩/🇷🇺 WATCH: Moldovan citizens in Moscow began voting today in the parliamentary elections at Russia's only two authorized polling stations, located at the Moldovan embassy and consular section.

➡️ Chisinau recently reduced the number of polling stations in Russia and Transnistria, limiting access for expatriate voters.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

—🗳🇲🇩 FACT CHECK: Some sources claim allegedly fake bomb threats were reported on Moldovan polling stations in:

➡️ Geneva - Switzerland 🇨🇭
➡️ Rome - Italy 🇮🇹
➡️ Bucharest - Romania 🇷🇴
➡️ Asheville - United States 🇺🇸
➡️ Alicante - Spain 🇪🇸
➡️ Brussels - Belgium 🇧🇪

❌ After conducting our own search and an AI-powered fact-checking, we can only confirm TWO LOCATIONS:

🇧🇪 ➡️ Politico: Moldova embassy in Brussels evacuated after election day bomb threat

🇲🇩 ➡️ CGTN: One of the polling stations in the parliamentary elections in Moldova in Transnistria was evacuated after an anonymous bomb threat - reports

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—🗳🇲🇩/🇮🇹 WATCH: Reports on social media allege that Moldovan voters arriving at polling stations in Italy shortly after opening found ballot boxes already full of ballots.

➡️ No major news agency or election watchdog has verified these claims amid widespread concerns about disinformation targeting the election process.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

—❗️🗳🇲🇩 NEW: Moldovan President Maia Sandu issued an urgent address, warning the nation about attempts to disrupt parliamentary elections through vote buying and bomb threats.

➡️ Sandu called on citizens to cast honest votes to defend the country against foreign interference and intimidation.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

—🗳🇲🇩❌🇲🇩 WATCH: A long line of vehicles with Transnistrian residents is stuck at the Rybnitsa-Rezina bridge, trying to reach Moldova to vote. Moldovan police are checking every car and have closed part of the bridge for "repairs" just before the election, causing hours-long delays.

➡️ Authorities have also reduced polling stations in the region, raising concerns over voter access.

➡️ Critics say is a tactic to reduce voter turnout in Transnistria, which often votes for opposition (pro-Russian) parties.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

🇲🇩🗳⚡️ Polls closed in Moldova 21 minutes ago.

Less than 52% voter presence. This is less mobilization than during the 2024 Moldovan presidential elections and similar with the 2021 Moldovan Parliamentary elections.

Over 1.3 million votes cast in Moldova proper and 264k votes cast in the diaspora.

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇲🇩🗳⚡️ At first glance, the results do not look good for the Action & Solidarity Party (PAS).

1.3 million votes in Moldova, out of ~2.5 million is a pretty good mobilization rate but 264k votes in the diaspora is pretty terrible.

PAS put in a lot of effort to open as many polling booths in Europe and North America as possible but they got 60k votes less from the diaspora than they did in the 2024 presidential elections.

Those 60k missing votes could have done the difference.

In addition to missing diaspora votes, the voter mobilisation among 55+ year olds, who are largely anti-Western and nostalgic for the USSR, having grown up during the Moldovan SSR and remembering the money Soviet tourism used to bring, likely voted against PAS.

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇲🇩🗳⚡️ Flash protest organised by the Patriotic Electoral Bloc (BEP) in front of the Moldovan Central Electoral Commission despite only 63% of the votes being counted.

BEP is unhappy with the results so far. They accuse the CEC, who is staffed by PAS members, of rigging the vote.

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇲🇩🗳⚡️ 71% counted

🟨 PAS has gone up to 44%

🌹 The Patriotic Bloc continues to lose votes, falling to 28%

⬜️ The Alternative Bloc grows slightly, getting to 8.5%

🇷🇴 PPDA drops slightly to 6.3%

🟦 PN stagnates at 6.5%

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇲🇩🗳⚡️ 80% counted

🟨 PAS has gone up to 44.5%

🌹 The Patriotic Bloc continues to lose votes, falling to 27.8%

⬜️ The Alternative Bloc grows slightly, getting to 8.7%

🟦 PN stagnates at 6.5%

🇷🇴 PPDA has fallen under 6%

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇲🇩🗳⚡️ The site of the Central Electoral Commission appears to have broken down and results aren't being updated.

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇲🇩🗳⚡️ 90% counted

Now the majority of votes left are from the diaspora and the big cities. PAS' score will increase a whole lot more. They should be able to reach 50% still.

🟨 PAS has gone up to 45.9%

🌹 The Patriotic Bloc dropped to 27.1%

⬜️ The Alternative Bloc grows slightly at 8.76%

🟦 PN fell slightly to 6.3%

🇷🇴 PPDA has fallen to 5.7%

@Wallachian_Gazette

—❗️🗳🇲🇩 NEW: Moldovan police have detained three individuals, including two brothers allegedly tied to security agencies in Transnistria, accused of planning violent destabilization following Sunday’s national elections.

➡️ Authorities seized pyrotechnics and flammable materials, warning protest organizers of legal consequences if unrest erupts.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

—🗳🇲🇩 NEW: PAS now holds the absolute majority of seats at the Moldovan parliament.