ELECTIONS 2025 // PLDM definitively barred from Sept 28 elections, denounces ‘procedural abuse'
The Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM), led by former Prime Minister Vlad Filat, will not be able to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections this fall. On September 2, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) accepted the appeal from the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) and rejected the PLDM's appeal, thereby upholding the party's exclusion from the list of parties eligible to run in the elections. In response, the party's representatives announced their intention to inform international monitoring missions and to challenge the ruling at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).