2000 Transnistrian parliamentary election

2000 Transnistrian parliamentary election
	43 seats in the Supreme Council; 22 seats needed for a majority
Grigore Mărăcuţă; Independent	Grigore Mărăcuţă; Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 10 December 2000. 42 Out of 43 seats were up for election, most of which were won by independent candidates. Women made up 4 of the 42 elected representatives. Grigore Mărăcuţă was elected for a third term as speaker, having the support of 39 out of 41 representatives present at his election.^[1] 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".^[2]

Results


Party		Seats
	Unity	9
	Obnovlenie	7
	Power to the People	1
	Independents	25
Vacant		1
Total		43

Source: Immigration and Nationality Directorate

References

^ (in Russian) Olvia Press: Grigory Marakutsa becomes speaker for the third time Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ 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.

[1] (in Russian) Olvia Press: Grigory Marakutsa becomes speaker for the third time Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine

[2] 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.

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