In Moldova , the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova won the 2001 , 2005 and 2009 parliamentary elections . However , the April 2009 Moldovan elections results in which the communist party supposedly won a third time were massively protested ( including an attack on the Parliament and Presidency buildings by angry crowds ) and another round was held on July 29 in which three opposition parties ( the Liberals , Liberal-Democrats and Democrats ) won and formed the Alliance for European Integration . However , failing to elect the President , new parliamentary elections were held in November 2010 which resulted in roughly the same representation in the Parliament . According to Ion Marandici , a Moldovan political scientist , the Moldovan communists differ from those in other countries because they managed to appeal to the ethnic minorities and the anti-Romanian Moldovans . After tracing the adaptation strategy of the Party of Communists from Moldova , he finds confirming evidence for five of the factors contributing to the electoral success , already mentioned in the theoretical literature on former communist parties , namely the economic situation , the weakness of the opponents , the electoral laws , the fragmentation of the political spectrum and the legacy of the old regime . However , Marandici identified seven additional explanatory factors at work in the Moldovan case , namely the foreign support for certain political parties , separatism , the appeal to the ethnic minorities , the alliance-building capacity , the reliance on the Soviet notion of the Moldovan identity , the state-building process and the control over a significant portion of the media . It is due to these seven additional factors that the successor party in Moldova managed to consolidate and expand its constituency . According to Marandici , in the post-Soviet area the Moldovan communists are the only ones who have been in power for so long and did not change the name of the party
2009 parliamentary elections
April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests
History of communism