Parliamentary elections were held in

Transnistria Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester riv ...

on 11 December 2005. They were won by the

Obnovlenie Obnovlenie (russian: Обновление, lit=Renewal), officially the Republican Party "Obnovlenie",, , uk, Республіканська партія «Оновлення» is a political party in the unrecognized state of Transnistria, ...

, an

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which, together with their allies, beat long-time President

Igor Smirnov Igor Smirnov may refer to: *Igor Smirnov (politician) (born 1941), president of the unrecognized Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic * Igor Smirnov (scientist) (1951–2004), controversial Russian mind control researcher See also * Igor Mirnov Igo ...

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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

Bessarabia Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Be ...

n 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

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. 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.

Aftermath

The victory of

enabled the party to change the long-term speaker of the Supreme Council,

Grigore Mărăcuţă Grigory Stepanovich Marakutsa (russian: Григóрий Степáнович Маракуца}, ; born 15 October 1942 in Teiu, Grigoriopol District) is a Transnistrian politician and member of Pridnestrovian Supreme Soviet. He is a member of ...

. On 28 December 2005, the leader of Renewal, Yevgeny Shevchuk was elected new speaker.

References

External links

* Olvia Press
List of elected MPs
(12 December 2005) {{Transnistrian elections Elections in Transnistria 2005 elections in Moldova 2005 in Transnistria Election and referendum articles with incomplete results