The Moldovan legislation envisages a step-by-step procedure with a view to address irregularities in the activity of a party which may first lead to temporary limitations of their activity: only if, following a requirement of the Ministry of Justice to take measures to cease the actions or inactions referred to in Article 21(1) and (11) and to inform the Ministry about the measures taken and about the elimination of the respective violations, the governing body of a political party has not fulfilled it within 30 days, the Ministry can request that the activity of the political party is suspended, for up to 6 months. Whereas the recently adopted amendments now allow the Ministry of Justice to apply directly to the Court without prior warning, this possibility is limited to those cases in which the actions or inactions under Article 21(1) and (11) threaten sovereignty, security or public order, accompanied by a list of aggravating factors (paragraph (31) a)–f)), namely:
“a) actions to undermine electoral processes;
b) disinformation campaigns, incitement to hatred, propaganda of military aggression, messages with extremist content, with terrorist content or that otherwise pose a threat to national security;
c) acts of large-scale corruption of voters;
d) illegal financing or illegal provision of services or material values to the political party or its electoral competitors;
e) actions to launder money or introduce into the country, systematically and illegally, financial means for current or electoral activities of the political party;
f) actions to plan, coordinate, support violent actions.”
