Peter Denisenko , capo della commissione elettorale , ha dichiarato che Smirnov ha ricevuto il supporto di 212.060 votanti , pari all’82,3% .
Alexander Korolev , ministro delgi interni , diviene vice presidente .
Molto ben piazzata la seconda in graduatoria , Nadezhda Bondarenko , esponente del sottovalutato partito comunista di PMR , con un lusinghiero 8.1%
Seguono Andrei Safonov con il 3,2%, per il quale occorre ricordare il forte handicap patito a seguito dell’iniziale rifiuto della sua candidatura
ed il deputato ed uomo d’affari Peter Tomaily , con il 2,1%. .
Su un corpo elettorale di 390. 200 persone , in 257.667 si sono recate in uno dei 263 seggi , pari al 66,1 % .
Erano presenti osservatori internazionali da Ucraina , Moldova, Abkhazia, Sud Ossetia, e Nagorno Karabakh .
Dalla Russia sono giunti in 40 , guidati dal deputato della Duma di Mosca Sergei Baburin

IGOR SMIRNOV TRADITIONALLY WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN TRANSNISTRIA...
Tiraspol. 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.
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.
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%.
1.6 percent voters cast ballots against all candidates, and 4,627 (1.79%) papers were recognized as void.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
Separatist leader of Tiraspol to head the region for another term
More than 65.4 per cent of the people registered on the electoral lists participated in the unconstitutional elections in the Transnistrian region, show data presented by the so-called Electoral Committee from the left bank of the Nistru.
Although the scrutiny outcomes haven't been announced yet, the local press has been circulating information about opinion polls, and the fourth consecutive victory of Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov for a week now.
According to the quoted opinion polls, including those conducted at the exit from the polling stations, Smirnov should gather at least 60 per cent of the votes. The so-called Ukrainian observers stated they will go to court in case there are litigations coming from the two candidates of the local opposition, Natalia Bondarenco and Andrei Safonov, who hadn't delegated entrusted people to the polling stations. They dared to qualify this thing as an attempt to compromise the legality of the internationally unrecognized election in the region.
In his turn, member of the CIS Committee under the State Duma Konstantin Zatulin stated that the election is conducted in conformity with the standards accepted in Russia. He announced that the scrutiny conducted in conformity with the legislation will constitute an argument in favor of recognizing the Transnistrian region. The Russian official criticized the attitude of the European bodies and OSCE regarding the so-called election.
Alexey Kochetkov, head of the controversial CIS-EMO organization, which was refused to be registered as observer in several CIS countries, including in the Republic of Moldova, stated that the electoral process in the secessionist Transnistrian republic was conducted in conformity with the international standards. He claimed that no cases of pressure used on electors were registered and that the principle of pluralism was observed; the only irregularities found out were the entrance of an entire family in one polling cab.
On Sunday election for presidential office were conducted in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova. The local committee registered four candidates, including the current leader of the separatist region Igor Smirnov who participates for the fourth time in election; Andrei Safonov, editor of an opposition newspaper; Pyotr Tomaila, Supreme Soviet MP; and Nadejda Bondarenco, editor of a local communist newspaper.
Last week the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration requested all diplomatic missions and international organization representatives accredited in Chisinau to abstain from monitoring the scrutiny and to condemn the election conducted by the separatist regime of Tiraspol. Earlier, the OSCE, the EU, and the USA announced they will not recognize the legality of the scrutiny this time either.
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