[1] Together with affiliated groups, the Popular Front of Moldova won a landslide victory.
Candidates who were openly supporters of the Popular Front won about 27% of the seats; together with moderate Communists, mainly from rural districts, they commanded a majority.
The Popular Front of Moldova gained complete control once Gagauz and Transnistrian deputies walked out in protest over Romanian-oriented cultural reforms.
One leader of the Popular Front of Moldova, Mircea Druc, formed the new government.
The Popular Front saw its government as a purely transitional ministry; its role was to dissolve the Moldavian SSR and join Romania.