Moldovan parliamentary election: February 24, 2019

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Regular parliamentary elections are going to be held in Moldova this Sunday, using the new "mixed" system with 50 out of 101 seats being allocated proportionally (with a 6% threshold for individual parties, 9% for two-party alliances and 11% for 3+ party alliances) and 51 being allocated by constituencies (FPTP as far as I know).

Top 3 (above the threshold in every recent poll)
- Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova: left-wing populist, pro-Russia and socially conservative. It's composed mostly of the former Communists. The party of current president Igor Dodon
- ACUM (Now) (EPP): a centre-right pro-European coalition
- Democratic Party of Moldova (S&D): the current governing party, self-described as centre-left and pro-European

There are two parties that are above the threshold in some recent polls:
- Șor Party (ECR) - there is little information about its ideology, seems to be populist
- Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (GUE/NGL) - a formerly dominant party that lost most of its supporters and many of its politicians to PSRM

In addition to these parties, additional minor parties are running, but their chances of passing the 6% threshold are very small. There are also many independents contesting the constituency seats.

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ACUM seems to me that they have the least ties to oligarchs. The leaders of PDM and Sor are oligarchs, and AFAIK there are oligarchs connected to PSRM and PCRM as well.

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https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1097841406553534464

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Live results:
https://pv.cec.md/cec-template-proportionale-rezultate-preliminarii.html

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https://www.moldova.org/en/update-parliamentary-election-moldova-results-processing-98-88-minutes/
Results for the proportional constituency (also available on the official site) and the FPTP constituencies (the official site lists just the candidate names, without their party affiliation)

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ACUM multiple times criticised both PSRM and PDM, and said that it won't make a coalition with these two parties. PDM after the election now says that it's "willing to talk with every parliamentary party", although AFAIK they criticised both PSRM and ACUM in the campaign.

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Well this is an outcome I didn't exactly expect, and it's a coalition of two groupings that have opposite positions on almost everything so there are legitimate questions about what will they exactly do in government, but I guess it's still better than anything involving Plahotniuc and his PDM...

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Wasn't Pavel Filip the acting prime minister, i.e. he still is if the Sandu government is illegitimate, so can he be the president and the prime minister at the same time?

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Pavel Filip (PDM) resigns, Plahotniuc (PDM) flees the country, the Constitutional Court revises its decisions - the political crisis has been resolved in favour of the new government.