In September 2025, before the parliamentary elections in Moldova, a campaign video with the symbols of the ruling party and controversial election promises spread across social networks. We have verified the authenticity of this video.

An election video purportedly produced by the Action and Solidarity (PAS) party went viral on September 18, ten days before parliamentary elections in Moldova. It is alleged that the video sets out a program of reforms that the party will carry out if it wins: raising the retirement age, increasing taxes, increasing the length of military service, etc.

The video was distributed by Telegram channels “Sanya in Florida"(502,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Observer" (170,000), "Russia now • news"(135,000), "Putin on Telegram"(123,000), "Dmitry Vasilets"(99,000), "Voice of Mordor"(97,000), "Ostashko! Important"(80,000), etc.

September 28 in Moldova passed parliamentary elections. The pro-European ruling party Action and Solidarity, founded by the country's President Maia Sandu, won with just over 50% of the vote. AND head of state, And major media They called these elections historic: the main opponent of the ruling party was the pro-Russian “Patriotic Bloc”, which ultimately received a little less than a quarter of the votes.

The election campaign was accompanied by numerous mutual accusations of attempts to interfere in the electoral process and manipulation. Sandu warned about large-scale information attacks by the Kremlin (this was confirmed in their investigations Moldovan And international media). And a few days before the elections the authorities stated about the detention of 74 people who were accused of preparing mass riots at the direction of curators from Russia. "Verified" told about dozens of fakes about the President of Moldova that pro-Kremlin media published in the months leading up to voting day. In turn, pro-Russian forces (like myself Kremlin) they accused the ruling party of not allowing Moldovans living in the Russian Federation to vote - on election day, only two polling stations were open in the country.

The propaganda video, which was allegedly released by PAS and which attracted the attention of Telegram channels, lasts 30 seconds. It lists the party's five main promises if it wins the election:

caring for pensioners - increasing the retirement age (for women - from 61 to 65 years, for men - from 65 to 70 years);
concern for security - increasing the length of military service from 12 to 24 months, as well as extending compulsory conscription to women;
caring about the economy - increasing income tax from 12% to 20%;
caring for the world and the future - joining the European Union by 2028;
taking care of infrastructure - repairing up to 3,000 km of roads.

Viral video. Source: Telegram

On official website PAS does not have this video or the three most resonant promises. On the main page, indeed, plans are indicated for joining the EU within three years and for improving transport infrastructure. The remaining three points are different: double the income of the working population, double the export of Moldovan goods and services, and create a program to promote national culture and traditions.

In addition to the five strategic goals, the party website also published document with an election program and a detailed description of plans for the development of Moldova in case of success in the elections. There is no information in this document about increasing the retirement age, taxes or military service. On the contrary, PAS promises to continue efforts to increase the minimum and average pensions, develop long-term care programs for retirees and introduce educational programs for the elderly. As for the sphere of defense, the corresponding section states: the country’s security will be achieved primarily through diplomacy. PAS also does not promise a future increase in income tax; it only reports on reforms already carried out in the tax field.

Some Telegram channels that shared the video indicate that it was published on the site pas2025.eu (the same address is indicated at the beginning of the video). However, the website of the Action and Solidarity party has a different address, it registered in the Moldovan domain zone .md.

At the time of writing this analysis, the site pas2025.eu is unavailable, it was not possible to check the date of its registration through the Whois service. At Internet Archive preserved several copies of it for September 18 and 19, which can be compared with the official website of the Moldovan ruling party. Its main page differs from a fake not only in the five promises and video discussed above - instead of a button that, when clicked, could download a 64-page election program, the clone site had a call to come to the polling stations.

On the left is a screenshot of the party’s official website pas2025.md, on the right is a screenshot pas2025.eu. Source: collage “Verified”

This election video clip PAS is also noticeably different from the viral one - it does not make promises, but talks about the party’s achievements over the past four years in power.

Viral video for the first time appeared in the Telegram channel “Voice of Mordor” on September 18 at 14:17 Moscow time. This channel regularly meets in analyzes “Verified” as the primary source and distributor of fakes. In addition, "The Voice of Mordor" has already some once spread misinformation using the same scheme, that is, he took falsified videos from clone sites.

Thus, the Moldovan party “Action and Solidarity” in its election program did not promise to raise the retirement age, income tax and military service. These promises first appeared on a website imitating the official PAS portal, and were distributed in the form of a short video through pro-Kremlin Telegram channels.

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