2024 Moldovan presidential election
2024
Incumbent President

Maia Sandu
PAS


Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Moldova in autumn 2024.[1]

Electoral system

Eligibility requirements

The Constitution of Moldova (Article 78, Clause 2) defines four conditions that a presidential candidate must satisfy: Moldovan citizenship, at least 40 years of age, residence in Moldova for at least 10 years, and ability to speak the state language. Article 80 of the Constitution establishes a term limit: one individual cannot serve more than 2 terms in a row.[2]

Procedure

Candidates can be nominated by a political party, an electoral alliance, or run as independents. They have to collect at least 15,000 voter signatures in their support from at least half of Moldova's level 2 administrative territorial units with at least 600 signatures in each of them.[3] The election results can be considered valid only if the turnout is above or equal to 33%. The candidate who receives an absolute majority of the votes is elected president. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, a second round between the top 2 candidates is held two weeks after the first round. The candidate with the largest number of votes in the second round then becomes president.[4]

Candidates

Declared

Name Born Experience Party Ref

Maia Sandu		 24 May 1972 (age 51)
Risipeni, Fălești District (Moldavian SSR)		 President of Moldova (2020–present)
Prime Minister of Moldova (2019)
Minister of Education (2012–2015)		 Independent
supported by PAS		 [5]

Renato Usatîi		 4 November 1978 (45)
Fălești, Fălești District (Moldavian SSR)		 Mayor of Balti (2015–2018, 2019–2021) Our Party [6]

Potential

As of February 2022, the following people have been subjects of speculation about their potential candidacy within the previous six months:

Declined

As of March 2022, the following people have been subjects of speculation about their potential candidacy within the previous six months, but they rejected and announced they won't candidate:

Opinion polls

Hypothetical candidates

Fieldwork
date		 Polling firm/
Commissioner		 Sample size Other None/
Undecided/
Abstention
Maia Sandu Igor Dodon Ion Ceban Ilan Shor Vladimir Voronin Ion Chicu Marina Tauber Renato Usatîi Andrei Năstase Irina Vlah
Independent PSRM MAN ȘOR PCRM PDCM ȘOR PN PPDA Independent
29 Nov–16 Dec 2023 IMAS[11] 954 30.1% 24.0% 8.1% – 2.7% 6.1% – 4.1% – 5.6% 6.0% 13.3%
2–24 Sep 2023 IMAS[12] 822 27.8% 16.0% 6.0% – 4.3% 5.9% – 6.0% – 4.9% 4.7% 24.4%
9–23 Aug 2023 CBS-AXA–IPP[13] 1,215 29.4% 18.1% 5.6% 3.2% 1.5% 4.1% – 5.1% – – 3.0% 30.1%
13–28 Jun 2023 CBS-AXA–IPRE[14] 1,120 32.6% 17.8% 5.3% 3.3% 4.3% 2.9% 3.0% 4.3% 0.4% – 1.1% 24.0%
10–19 Jun 2023 CBS-AXA–WatchDog[15] 1,121 37.9% 14.2% 6.2% 2.5% 4.7% 5.0% 3.5% 4.7% – – 3.0% 18.3%
2–19 May 2023 IMAS[16] 1,112 28.5% 23.9% 8.3% – 3.7% 7.2% 2.7% 3.8% 1.0% – 3.1% 18.0%
27 Apr–8 May 2023 iData[17] 1,049 30.4% 18.3% 6.7% 12.2% – 5.9% – 4.5% – 2.8% 1.5% 17.7%
4–13 Apr 2023 CBS-AXA–WatchDog[18] 1,015 38.3% 18.4% 6.2% 2.5% 3.2% 4.9% 2.2% 3.2% – – 1.9% 19.2%
15–26 Mar 2023 iData[19] 1,065 29.4% 17.6% 7.2% 9.2% 0.9% 5.4% – 1.7% – 3.1% 1.7% 23.9%
24 Feb–3 Mar 2023 CBS-AXA–WatchDog[20] 1,000 31.8% 17.8% 4.7% 2.0% 3.5% 3.3% 1.8% 2.0% 0.6% 2.1% 1.5% 28.8%
6–23 Feb 2023 IMAS[21] 1,100 25.2% 20.4% 8.2% – 4.9% 5.4% 4.3% 3.4% 0.5% – 3.3% 24.6%
17–26 Jan 2023 CBS-AXA–WatchDog[22] 1,001 28.2% 17.6% 8.5% 4.2% 3.9% 3.9% 2.4% 3.5% 0.6% 1.8% 3.4% 21.8%
15–26 Dec 2022 iData[23] 1,006 27.2% 24.1% 10.0% 13.4% 0.6% 5.0% 0.2% 0.5% 0.4% 0.1% 2.6% 16.0%
10–29 Nov 2022 IMAS[24] 1,100 26.9% 19.6% 8.8% – 4.0% 7.1% 2.8% 2.2% 2.1% – 5.2% 21.3%
29 Oct–10 Nov 2022 CBS Research/IPP[25] 1,134 27.3% 15.4% 7.1% 9.1% 4.3% – – 2.9% 1.8% – 1.7% 30.5%
29 Sep–11 Oct 2022 IDIS–CBS Research–IPRI[26] 1,066 34.1% 19.1% 7.1% 6.3% 5.2% 2.5% – 3.3% 1.8% 1.2% 1.4% 18.1%
6–18 Jul 2022 IMAS[27] 1,007 24.4% 25.4% 9.2% – 7.1% 5.2% 3.6% 2.8% c. 1.0% – 4.4% 16.0%

Second round

Sandu vs. Dodon
Fieldwork
date		 Polling firm/
Commissioner		 Sample size None/
Undecided/
Abstention
Maia Sandu Igor Dodon
Independent PSRM
29 Nov–16 Dec 2023 IMAS[11] 954 35% 46% 19%
2–19 May 2023 IMAS[28] 1,112 38% 45% 17%
Sandu vs. Ceban
Fieldwork
date		 Polling firm/
Commissioner		 Sample size None/
Undecided/
Abstention
Maia Sandu Ion Ceban
Independent MAN
29 Nov–16 Dec 2023 IMAS[11] 954 34% 42% 24%
Sandu vs. Usatîi
Fieldwork
date		 Polling firm/
Commissioner		 Sample size None/
Undecided/
Abstention
Maia Sandu Renato Usatîi
Independent PN
29 Nov–16 Dec 2023 IMAS[11] 954 37% 30% 33%
Sandu vs. Vlah
Fieldwork
date		 Polling firm/
Commissioner		 Sample size None/
Undecided/
Abstention
Maia Sandu Irina Vlah
Independent Independent
29 Nov–16 Dec 2023 IMAS[11] 954 38% 35% 27%

References

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