President of Transnistria

Transnistria

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The President of Transnistria is the highest elected official of Transnistria, a small unrecognized country which declared independence from Moldova in 1990. The president of the republic is the country's head of state and is also commander in chief of its armed forces. As per the Constitution of Transnistria, he also represents the country abroad.

The President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, as Transnistria is officially called, is elected by the citizens of the republic on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot for a term of five years. For the past three elections, Igor Smirnov won the majority of the votes. International observers disagree about the validity of vote results, with some calling the elections free and fair and others claiming the exact opposite.

The last Transnistria's presidential election was held December, 2011.

List of heads of state of Transnistria

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
3 September 1990 to 29 November 1990		Igor Nikolayevich Smirnov, Chairman of the Provisional Supreme Soviet	OSTK
29 November 1990 to 5 November 1991		Igor Nikolayevich Smirnov, Chairman of the Republic	n-p
Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic
5 November 1991 to 3 December 1991		Igor Nikolayevich Smirnov, Chairman of the Republic	n-p	Imprisoned in Moldova from 29 August 1991 to 1 October 1991
29 August 1991 to 1 October 1991		Andrey Panteleyevich Manoylov, First Deputy Chairman of the Republic	n-p	Acting for imprisoned Smirnov
3 December 1991 to 30 December 2011		Igor Nikolayevich Smirnov, President	n-p/RP
30 December 2011 to Present		Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk, President	n-p

Affiliations

• OSTK - United Work Collective Council
• RP - Republic
• n-p - Nonpartisan

Latest election

Main article: Transnistrian presidential election, 2011

 Summary of the 11 December and 25 December 2011 Transnistrian presidential election results

Candidate	Party	1st round		2nd round
		Votes	%	Votes	%
Yevgeny Shevchuk	Independent	95,765	38.55	165,502	73.88
Anatoliy Kaminski	Renewal	65,330	26.30	44,071	19.67
Igor Smirnov	Independent	61,248	24.66
Oleg Khorzhan	Pridnestrovie Communist Party	12,646	5.09
Dmitry Soin	Breakthrough	1441	0.58
Andrey Safonov	Independent	1303	0.52
Against all		4667	1.88	9977	4.45
Invalid		5986	2.41	4460	1.99
Total number of votes cast		248,386	100.00	224,010	100.00
Turnout		248,386	58.88	224,010	52.47
Abstention				202,948	47.53
Total number of registered voters			100.00	426,958	100.00
Source: Olvia Press 2 Transnistrian CEC

See also

• Politics of Transnistria
• Prime Minister of Transnistria

External links

• Official PMR presidential site (in Russian)
• Unofficial presidential website