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Moldova Condemns Election In Breakaway Transdniester Region

December 11, 2016

Six candidates are running to be the self-styled president of the unrecognized Transdniester state, including incumbent Yevgeny Shevchuk.

Moldova has declared the December 11 election illegal.

Polls have shown Shevchuk and Vadim Krasnoselsky, who resigned as head of the region's "Supreme Council" to run in the election, to be the leading candidates.

If no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote, then a runoff will be held between the top two vote-getters on December 25.

The other candidates are Communist Party chief Oleg Khorzhan, former court official Vladimir Grigoryev, Aleksandr Deli, and Irina Vasikakii.

A predominantly Russian-speaking region, Transdniester declared its independence from Moldova in 1990.

A brief war was fought between Moldovan forces and Transdniester separatists in 1992-93 that resulted in several hundred people killed on both sides.

There are some 2,000 Russian troops in Transdniester that the Moldovan government has repeatedly asked to leave.

Diplomatic attempts led by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe since the end of the war to find a settlement to the conflict have been unsuccessful.

As Moldova's government has sought closer ties with the European Union in recent years, Moscow has made veiled threats to outright recognize Transdniester as independent.

Based on reporting by RFE/RL's Moldovan Service and TASS

Source: http://www.rferl.org/a/election-president -transdniester/28169376.html

Copyright (c) 2016. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.