To declare election results invalid
The presidential elections held in Transdnester on Sunday may be declared invalid.
The "Moskovsky Komsomolets" reports that the issue of declaring the elections invalid is actually a heated debate between the pro-government candidates, including Igor Smirnov and the parliamentary speaker, the Kremlin's candidate Igor Kaminsky since both candidates had equal votes.
Yesterday the Central Electoral Commission of Transdnester had to release the initial results of the elections. This morning, it was clear that former speaker of the Supreme Council Yevgeny Shevchuk had surpassed the other two candidates. He was followed by Igor Smirnov and Anatoli Kaminsky, but it wasn't clear as to which of them was ahead.
However, there were no more rumors after head of the international observatory mission Valery Klimenko declared that he demanded that the elections be declared invalid. According to him, the reason is because of the Russian officials' participation in the activities of one of the candidates' pre-electoral headquarters.
Head of the International Institute of New States Alexey Martinov says the CEC of Transdnester will most likely release the results of the elections and will declare the second round. In case of such development of events, the second round of the presidential elections may be held two weeks later. If the elections see a turnout of 25%, the candidate with a clear majority of votes will be declared the winner.
