2005 Transnistrian parliamentary election explained

Election Name:2005 Transnistrian parliamentary election
Country:Transnistria
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2000 Transnistrian parliamentary election
Previous Year:2000
Next Election:2010 Transnistrian parliamentary election
Next Year:2010
Seats For Election:All 43 seats in the Supreme Council
Image1:Yevgeny Shevchuk (mid.gospmr.org).jpg
Leader1:Yevgeny Shevchuk
Party1:Obnovlenie
Leaders Seat1:Constituency #22 (Rîbnița)
Last Election1:7 seats
Seats1:23 (+ 6 allies)
Seat Change1: 16
Leader2:Igor Smirnov
Party2:Republic (Transnistria)
Leaders Seat2:Did not run
Last Election2:
Seats2:13
Seat Change2:New
Speaker
Before Election:Grigore Mărăcuţă
Before Party:Republic (Transnistria)
After Election:Yevgeny Shevchuk
After Party:Obnovlenie

Parliamentary elections were held in Transnistria on 11 December 2005. They were won by the Obnovlenie, an NGO which, together with their allies, beat long-time President Igor Smirnov's Republic party. Following its victory, in June 2006, Obnovlenie was registered as a political party.

Results

According to PMR data, only 15 of the 43 members of its parliament (MPs) were born in the PMR territory (including 12 in Transnistria proper, and 3 in the Bessarabian area in and around the city of Bender, which is controlled by PMR), while 4 others in the rest of Moldova, with the remainder mainly born in Russia or Ukraine.[1] Igor Smirnov, the leader of PMR, arrived in the region in 1987. Most of the MPs who were born elsewhere had moved to the region ten years or more before the conflict erupted.[2]

Aftermath

The victory of Obnovlenie enabled the party to change the long-term speaker of the Supreme Council, Grigore Mărăcuţă. On 28 December 2005, the leader of Renewal, Yevgeny Shevchuk was elected new speaker.

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Notes and References

  1. 9 were born in the Russian Federation, 8 in Ukraine, 2 in Kazakhstan, 1 in Germany, 1 in Belarus, and 3 did not declare.
  2. http://www.vspmr.org/?Part=6&Lang=Eng PMR Supreme Council: Members of Parliament