{"id":102685,"date":"2006-12-11T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2006\/12\/11\/igor-smirnov-traditionally-wins-presidential-election-in-transnistria-21256-eng\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T19:43:00","slug":"igor-smirnov-traditionally-wins-presidential-election-in-transnistria-21256-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/igor-smirnov-traditionally-wins-presidential-election-in-transnistria-21256-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Smirnov traditionally wins presidential election in Transnistria…"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The unchangeable leader of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic, Igor Smirnov, has been elected to the region’s supreme post for a 4th time in succession. <\/p>\n

As the region’s Central Electoral Commission chairman Peter Denisenko told Infotag, at the presidential elections held here yesterday, Smirnov received the support of 212,060 voters – 82.3% of all ballots. Transnistrian minister of the interior Alexander Korolev has been elected vice-president. <\/p>\n

Local Communist Party candidate Nadezhda Bondarenko polled slightly over 8.1%, oppositional candidate Andrei Safonov – 3.2%, and businessman and a Transnistrian supreme soviet [parliament] deputy Peter Tomaily – 2.1%. <\/p>\n

1.6 percent voters cast ballots against all candidates, and 4,627 (1.79%) papers were recognized as void. <\/p>\n

Voter rolls contained 390.2 thousand names, of which 257,667 persons went to the polls, thus marking a voter turnout of 66.1%. A total of 263 polling stations were opened last Sunday, including 11 for those Transnistrians who were staying outside the region on the election day. <\/p>\n

According to the Transnistrian CEC, the event was monitored by 40 representatives of the Russian Federation (including a delegation from the Russian State Duma led by MP Sergei Baburin) as well as observers from Ukraine, Moldova, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorny Karabakh. <\/p>\n

In the foreign political sphere, president Smirnov, communist Nadezhda Bondarenko and parliamentarian Peter Tomaily stand for further rapprochement with Russia and other former Soviet Union states, and only the region’s chief oppositionist, Andrei Safonov, advocates a multi-vector policy and Transnistria’s European perspectives. <\/p>\n

Candidates’ chief differences pertain to the domestic policy. Bondarenko and Safonov criticize the present-day country management system, claiming the state apparatus in Transnistria is corrupt and too bureaucratic. <\/p>\n

For the first time ever in Transnistria, an exit-poll was organized yesterday by the Novy Vek [New Century] independent Transnistrian center for analytical researches. The exit-poll findings were made public immediately upon completion of the voting, to show that Smirnov received 63.34%, Nadezhda Bondarenko 8.54%, Andrei Safonov 6.51%, and Peter Tomaily 1.37%. <\/p>\n

Igor Smirnov marked his 65th birthday anniversary this past October. He is an engineer by university diploma, and has worked as Director of the ElectroMash plant of Tiraspol before the breakup of the Soviet Union. He stood at the cradle of the Transnistrian Republic, and has been its permanent leader since the republic’s declaration on September 2, 1990. Igor Smirnov won presidential elections in 1991, 1996, 2001, and yesterday. He is married and has 2 sons: Vladimir heads the Transnistrian customs service, and Oleg Smirnov is a businessman. Last September, Oleg was elected chairman of the Transnistrian Patriotic Party that supports his dad. \/\/ Infotag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Igor Smirnov traditionally wins presidential election in Transnistria…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The unchangeable leader of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic, Igor Smirnov, has been elected to the region’s supreme post for a 4th time in succession. <\/p>\n

As the region’s Central Electoral Commission chairman Peter Denisenko told Infotag, at the presidential elections held here yesterday, Smirnov received the support of 212,060 voters – 82.3% of all ballots. Transnistrian minister of the interior Alexander Korolev has been elected vice-president. <\/p>\n

Local Communist Party candidate Nadezhda Bondarenko polled slightly over 8.1%, oppositional candidate Andrei Safonov – 3.2%, and businessman and a Transnistrian supreme soviet [parliament] deputy Peter Tomaily – 2.1%. <\/p>\n

1.6 percent voters cast ballots against all candidates, and 4,627 (1.79%) papers were recognized as void. <\/p>\n

Voter rolls contained 390.2 thousand names, of which 257,667 persons went to the polls, thus marking a voter turnout of 66.1%. A total of 263 polling stations were opened last Sunday, including 11 for those Transnistrians who were staying outside the region on the election day. <\/p>\n

According to the Transnistrian CEC, the event was monitored by 40 representatives of the Russian Federation (including a delegation from the Russian State Duma led by MP Sergei Baburin) as well as observers from Ukraine, Moldova, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorny Karabakh. <\/p>\n

In the foreign political sphere, president Smirnov, communist Nadezhda Bondarenko and parliamentarian Peter Tomaily stand for further rapprochement with Russia and other former Soviet Union states, and only the region’s chief oppositionist, Andrei Safonov, advocates a multi-vector policy and Transnistria’s European perspectives. <\/p>\n

Candidates’ chief differences pertain to the domestic policy. Bondarenko and Safonov criticize the present-day country management system, claiming the state apparatus in Transnistria is corrupt and too bureaucratic. <\/p>\n

For the first time ever in Transnistria, an exit-poll was organized yesterday by the Novy Vek [New Century] independent Transnistrian center for analytical researches. The exit-poll findings were made public immediately upon completion of the voting, to show that Smirnov received 63.34%, Nadezhda Bondarenko 8.54%, Andrei Safonov 6.51%, and Peter Tomaily 1.37%. <\/p>\n

Igor Smirnov marked his 65th birthday anniversary this past October. He is an engineer by university diploma, and has worked as Director of the ElectroMash plant of Tiraspol before the breakup of the Soviet Union. He stood at the cradle of the Transnistrian Republic, and has been its permanent leader since the republic’s declaration on September 2, 1990. Igor Smirnov won presidential elections in 1991, 1996, 2001, and yesterday. He is married and has 2 sons: Vladimir heads the Transnistrian customs service, and Oleg Smirnov is a businessman. Last September, Oleg was elected chairman of the Transnistrian Patriotic Party that supports his dad. \/\/ Infotag<\/p>\n

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