Presidential elections in South Ossetia conform to the norms of electoral law, said the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. His words are quoted by the correspondent of”.ru” on Monday, April 10.
“We welcome the holding of presidential elections in South Ossetia. We acknowledge that it was absolutely politically competitive democratic electoral process, a transparent and genuinely competitive elections,” — said Peskov.
Official Kremlin spokesman also expressed satisfaction with the fact that the main competition in the elections was conducted between the candidates, “who are strong supporters of the further close relations of South Ossetia with Russia.”
Earlier on Monday it became known that the speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov is leading in the presidential elections in the Republic, he was voted 54,18% came to the land. These data are published on his page in Facebook an employee of the Republican Parliament of Madina Valieva. In the second place, the acting head of the Republic Leonid Tibilov is 31.33 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was 85 per cent.
Presidential elections were held in South Ossetia on 9 April. To win the candidate must get more than 50 percent of the vote.
South Ossetia, which declared its independence from Georgia in 1991, has the status of partially recognized Republic. It is considered an independent state five countries: Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru and Tuvalu.