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Greater Moldova Party
Date of Birth: 17.07.2007
Administrator: Victoria Furtuna
IDNO: 1019620009875
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The Moldova Mare (Greater Moldova) Party is a political organization registered in 2007, initially named the political movement "For Nation and Country". The movement elected Tudor Deliu as president, but he resigned in the same year, joining the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM), on whose list he became a member of Parliament in 2010.
In 2008, the movement was reorganized into the "Political Party for Nation and Country", declaring itself a socio-political organization with a social-liberal orientation and a European vocation, led by Nicolae Utica. After more than ten years without activities, due to the departure of its members to the PLDM and a lack of financial resources, Utica resigned, and the relaunch of the party was voted.
In 2020, it was renamed the 'Moldova Mare Political Party (PPMM)", which over the next four years was successively led by Valeria Rusu, Igor Grabar, and Veaceslav TIron. In October 2024, the party had 171 registered members according to ASP records. In March 2025, former anticorruption prosecutor Victoria Furtuna, who had run in the presidential elections and obtained 4.45% of the vote, was elected as party leader.
The party declares itself a defender of the “Moldovan language”, faith, and traditions, and it plans to open 1,508 new enterprises, as well as propose draft laws against electoral corruption, among other initiatives.
Soon after, the party became involved in handling several cases of people fined by the police for selling their votes in favor of a presidential candidate and for saying NO in the autumn 2024 referendum on Moldova’s integration into the European Union.
The chief of police reported that more than 6,000 citizens had already been sanctioned, and another 140,000 were under investigation for electoral corruption, facing fines ranging from 25,000 to 37,500 lei. Electoral bribery was coordinated by affiliated individuals under the leadership of the fugitive Ilan Shor from Moscow. The scheme was carried out via the Telegram app, with payments made through accounts opened at a commercial bank in Russia. An investigation by Ziarul de Garda showed that, in addition to attempting to derail the country’s European course, Shor was also supporting Furtuna’s presidential candidacy. The leader of the Moldova Mare party stated that the authorities imposed fines without discernment and evidence.
The party’s team, together with lawyer Igor Hlopetchi, is handling the defense of Anna Mihalachi, who was sued by President Maia Sandu for defamation and publishing false information during the first round of the presidential elections, concerning her grandfather’s alleged role as an informant during the Soviet period.
From the head of the party, Furtuna also advanced territorial claims against neighboring states, demanding the return of the Southern Bugeac region from Ukraine to the Republic of Moldova, arguing that access to the Black Sea via the Danube would help the country’s economic recovery. She maintained that there is no international treaty ratified by Moldova recognizing the loss of Bugeac.
At the same time, she joined other pro-Russian politicians in expressing discontent over the screening in schools of the film "Siberia in the Bones", about the Soviet deportations from Bessarabia between 1941–1949. Furtuna also filed a complaint with the Ministry of Education and Research, claiming that the documentary contained violent scenes, explicit political ideology, and should not be shown to students.
She requested the opening of a criminal case against President Maia Sandu for supporting Nicusor Dan in the Romanian presidential elections. Furtuna considered the support an act of election interference, external pressure, and political aggression directed against Romania’s security and independence.
