The fact that the proposed draft passed first reading on May 5 with 74 out of 76 votes in the 101-member Parliament appears as a sign of broad support in the parliament. However, during the visit to Chișinău, the delegation found little evidence of broad consensus on the change from a proportional system to a mixed system. While representatives of the Democratic Party and of the European People’s Party – a faction created during the present legislature - supported the reform, representatives of the Socialist Party informed the Venice Commission and OSCE/ODIHR delegation that they considered the change as a an alternative compared to a fully majoritarian system. Subsequently, the President of the Socialist Party, sent the Venice Commission a letter saying that the Party supported the draft. All other parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties that met with the delegation voiced strong concerns over a change to a mixed electoral system, and questioned the need for this change, although some of these parties advocated such a change at an earlier stage. Numerous parties and stakeholders raised concerns that the pluralism of political views in the Parliament would suffer as a result of this reform and that it would lead to undue influence of money in political activities. Whichever way to consider these concerns, they clearly challenge the formal consensus behind the proposed change to the electoral system.