2000 Transnistrian parliamentary election

2000 Transnistrian parliamentary election
10 December 2000
43 seats in the Supreme Council
22 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Seats
Unity 9
Obnovlenie 7
Power to the People 1
Independents – 25
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker of the Supreme Council before Speaker of the Supreme Council after
Grigore Mărăcuţă
Independent		 Grigore Mărăcuţă
Independent
Politics of Transnistria
Constitution
Executive
Legislature
Supreme Council
Speaker
Alexander Korshunov
Political parties
Elections
Administrative divisions
  • Five Raions
  • One Municipality
Foreign relations
Diplomatic missions of / in Transnistria

Parliamentary elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 10 December 2000. Most seats were won by independent candidates. Women made up four of the 42 elected representatives. Grigore Mărăcuţă was elected for a third term as speaker, having the support of 39 out of 41 representatives present at his election.[1] According to an article by the ethnic Russian researcher from Moldova Alla Skvortsova from 2002, "polls and elections in the PMR may to some extent have been rigged".[2]

Results

PartySeats
Unity9
Obnovlenie7
Power to the People1
Independents25
Vacant1
Total43
Source: Immigration and Nationality Directorate

References

  1. ^ (in Russian) Olvia Press: Grigory Marakutsa becomes speaker for the third time Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Alla Skvortsova, "The Cultural and Social Makeup of Moldova: A Bipolar or Dispersed Society?", in Pal Kolsto (ed.), National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), p. 176.
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