2001 Transnistrian presidential election

none Transnistria presidential 1996 Transnistrian presidential election 1996 2006 Transnistrian presidential election 2006 9 December 2001 Igor Smirnov (2017-10-04).jpg Igor Smirnov Sergey Leontiev Independent politician 208,617 81.85% 3x4.svg Tom Zenovich Independent politician 17,018 6.68% President Igor Smirnov Independent politician Igor Smirnov Independent politician Presidential elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 9 December 2001.Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003, Taylor & Francis, p265 The result was a victory for incumbent President Igor Smirnov, who received 82% of the vote. The other candidates were Tom Zenovich, mayor of Bender (the second largest city in the country), and Alexander Radchenko of the Power to the People party, which advocated reunion with Moldova. The Moldova Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State on February 25, 2004, stated "Citizens' right to change their government was severely restricted in Transnistria. In the period prior to the 2001 "presidential" elections, authorities shut down a political party and a youth group, closed a leftist party newspaper, and seized a press run. The authorities refused to register one potential presidential candidate and dismissed another from his job as mayor of Bender prior to the election. Authorities reportedly threatened workers with job loss and students with expulsion from their universities if they did not vote for the incumbent, Igor Smirnov. Local observers reported that the actual voting was unfair, with considerable ballot box stuffing. Officials in the northern region of Kamenka reported that 103.6 percent of their voters cast ballots for Smirnov."http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27854.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20081213110338/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27854.htm 2008-12-13 Moldova 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".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. Results CandidatePartyVotes%Igor Smirnov 208,61781.85Tom ZenovichIndependent17,0186.68Alexander RadchenkoPower to the People11,8534.65None of the above17,3756.82Invalid/blank votes–Total254,863100Registered voters/turnout405,24862.89Source: Olivia Press References Transnistria Category:Elections in Transnistria Presidential Transnistria