July 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election

Moldovan parliamentary election

29 July 2009
All the 101 seats to the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
First party Second party Third party   File:Pcrmlogo.png File:Liberal Party - Moldova Logo.png Candidate PSD PPCD Leader Vladimir Voronin Vlad Filat Mihai Ghimpu Party PCRM PLDM PL Leader since 1994 2007 2005 Last election 60 15 15 Seats won 48 17 15 Seat change -12 +2 ±0   Fourth party Fifth party   File:Pdm-logo.png Leader Marian Lupu Serafim Urechean Party PDM AMN Leader since 2009 2003 Last election 0 11 Seats won 13 8 Seat change +13 -3

A parliamentary election took place in Moldova on 29 July 2009. The country's parliament, elected months earlier, was dissolved by president Vladimir Voronin on June 15, 2009, after it had twice failed to elect a new president.

Before the dissolution, 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.

Eight parties participated in the elections: Four which had won seats in the April elections (PCRM, PL, PLDM, PAMN), three parties which had won between three and four percent (PSD, PPCD, PDM) and the Ecologist Party of Moldova "Green Alliance", which had not participated in the April elections.

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