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In response to the Court’s decision, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova organised extensive consultations involving parliamentary committees, the plenary, competent State authorities, and civil society. These consultations identified serious shortcomings affecting the integrity of the electoral process, including large-scale voter corruption; illegal campaign financing; violation of the electoral legislation and financial reporting norms, including by creating new political entities and supporting formally independent candidates, but controlled by members of a party previously declared unconstitutional; massive disinformation campaigns and hybrid information warfare, financed from foreign sources; involvement of religious denominations; misuse of personal data; and incitement to hatred and national division. On this basis, the Parliament adopted Decision No. 285 of 12 December 2024, in which it noted that the gravity of these phenomena required the urgent modification of the regulatory framework and called for enhanced inter-institutional cooperation, strengthened oversight of political financing, and urgent legislative amendments to improve the effectiveness of measures to combat electoral and political corruption, including changes to electoral, criminal, and related legislation.