Electoral reform in Pridnestrovie
Deputy corps of the PMR took up amendments to the electoral legislation of the country. They relate to a number of strategically important electoral reform. In the first place, legislators propose Pridnestrovie repeal mandatory threshold turnout at the polling stations.
At this point, a threshold turnout required for the elections held constitutes 25% of voters in the elections of local councils and the Parliament of the Republic, and 50% in the presidential election and referendums.
Legislators of Pridnestrovie motivate the changes that the “politically vocal minority should not depend suffer for the conduct politically passive majority”.
It is possible that the next step electoral reform will be the concept of holding elections on the basis of proportional representation. The Pridnestrovian voters will vote in the local and nationwide parliamentary elections on party lists.
The implementation of the initiative insist international organizations, Ukraine, and, to some degree, Russia. It is the worldwide trend, thus enshrined democratic electoral process. Competition for seats in the supreme organ of legislative power among the various social groups of a political struggle and, accordingly, the result of the reform will be politically informed democratic expression of the will of the voters.
According to analysts, the proposals Deputies to the Supreme Council fit into legislative harmonisation of Pridnestrovie and the Russian Federation, where these amendments and changes have taken nature of the laws.
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posted: 5 January 2007
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