Law No. 100/2025 was drafted by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, following the presidential elections and the constitutional referendum held on 20 October and 3 November 2024, and following the Constitutional Court Decision No. 25 of 28 November 2024 on the confirmation of the election results and the validation of the mandate of the President of the Republic of Moldova. In this decision, the Court expressly addressed the issue of electoral corruption. It noted the unprecedented scale of voter corruption reported by investigative authorities during the 2024 electoral process, including the number of registered cases and the amounts of financial means seized. The Court emphasised that voter corruption and vote buying are incompatible with the concept of free and democratic elections and undermine the secrecy and free expression of the vote. While concluding that the established cases did not justify invalidating the election results, the Court observed that the existing legal framework ensured only a minimal fulfilment of the State’s positive obligation to combat electoral corruption and indicated that the legal mechanisms in this area needed to be improved. The Court furthermore referred to reports by several national and international organisations about external interference, including the illegal offering of financial incentives to influence voters; about hate speech and discriminatory statements during the electoral period and in electoral materials; and about the involvement of religious denominations in elections which violated the rules of a democratic electoral competition, and which required legislative action.