The President of Transnistria, Igor Smirnov, filed a complaint with the Central Election Commission of the unrecognized republic demanding that the results of the elections held on December 11 be invalidated. reports this Interfax with reference to Central Election Commission member Vladimir Chukhnenko.

The CEC will announce the results of the consideration of the 15-page complaint on Wednesday, December 14, at 14:00 local time (16:00 Moscow time). Earlier it was reported that the announcement of the final election results was postponed from Monday to Wednesday precisely because of complaints from candidates and voters. In total, as RIA Novosti reports , the CEC received 27 complaints from candidates and voters.

According to Smirnov's confidant Alexander Utkin, the current president filed a complaint due to violation of election campaign rules by one of the candidates, the speaker of the Transnistrian parliament Anatoly Kaminsky, and due to violations during the voting. Observers, notes "New Region", recorded a discrepancy between the number of ballots issued and the number of voters, and also noted the influence of administrative resources.

None of the presidential candidates, according to preliminary data, received enough votes to win in the first round. According to the headquarters of Kaminsky and former Speaker of Parliament Yevgeny Shevchuk, these candidates will advance to the second round. The same result is shown by an exit poll conducted by the information and analytical agency "SOCIUM", while the news agency "Vector" gives leadership to Smirnov and puts Shevchuk in second place. According to the Central Election Commission, after processing 80 percent of the ballots, Smirnov still had a chance to advance to the second round.

The President of Transnistria demanded to cancel the election results