Vadim Krasnoselski re-elected chairman of self-proclaimed rmn

Chisinau, Dec. 13 / MOLDPRES /- Vadim Krasnoselski has been re-elected chairman of the Transnistrian separatist region, the so-called Central Electoral Commission in Tiraspol announced today.

"Vadim Krasnoselski won the presidential election with 79.4% of the vote. For his opponent, candidate Serghei Pînzari, 11.8% of the voters opted ", a communiqué of the alleged electoral authority from the left bank of the Dniester reads.

According to this structure, in the elections in the self-proclaimed Transnistrian republic, held on December 12, 143,054 voters cast their ballots, which is a turnout of 35.2%. In the 2016 elections, when Krasnoselski was first elected, the right to vote was exercised by about 60% of the region's residents on the voting lists (about 400,000 citizens).

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MAEIE) of the Republic of Moldova stated before this election that the so-called "presidential elections" in Transnistria are illegal, illegitimate and void. The MAEIE urged foreign partners not to delegate observers and described such actions as "defiance of the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity".

Vadim Krasnoselski was born on April 14, 1970, in Cita region of the Russian Federation, into the family of a Ukrainian soldier who settled in Bender in 1978. He graduated from the Military Technical Missile School in Kharkov (Ukraine), T. G. Shevchenko university from Tiraspol. Since September 1993 he has been developing a career in the internal affairs of the separatist region. In December 2015 he was elected president of the legislature of the self-proclaimed rmn, and in 2016 - the so-called president of rmn.