2005 Transnistrian parliamentary election

none 2005 Transnistrian parliamentary election Transnistria parliamentary no 2000 Transnistrian parliamentary election 2000 2010 Transnistrian parliamentary election 2010 All 43 seats in the Supreme Council 2005 12 11 y Yevgeny Shevchuk (mid.gospmr.org).jpg Yevgeny Shevchuk Obnovlenie Constituency #22 (Rîbnița) 7 seats 23 (+ 6 allies) 16 Igor Smirnov (2017-10-04).jpg Igor Smirnov Republic (Transnistria) Did not run – 13 New Speaker Grigore Mărăcuţă Republic (Transnistria) Yevgeny Shevchuk 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.9 were born in the Russian Federation, 8 in Ukraine, 2 in Kazakhstan, 1 in Germany, 1 in Belarus, and 3 did not declare. 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.PMR Supreme Council: Members of Parliament Supreme Council of the PMR. Retrieved 2006-12-27. Moreover, according to the 2004 Transnistrian census, only 90% of the population of Transnistria had Transnistrian citizenship and could thus vote."2004 Census: PMR urban, multilingual, multicultural" at https://web.archive.org/web/20090318044749/http://pridnestrovie.net/2004census.html. File:Transnistrian Supreme Council 2005.svg Obnovlenie 23 Republic 13 Obnovlenie allies 6 Independents 1 204797 7260 410058 BHHRG, RIA Novosti, Regnum 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. References External links ru Olvia Press: List of elected MPs (12 December 2005) Category:Elections in Transnistria Category:2005 elections in Moldova Category:2005 in Transnistria Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results