2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election: Difference between revisions

Four parties were contesting for 34 seats in the [[Parliament of South Ossetia]]. According to the central election commission, 45,000 people were registered to vote on Sunday. <ref name="bbc_sunday">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8075821.stm|title=Disputed South Ossetia holds poll|date=2009-05-31|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=2009-05-31}}</ref> This was the first South Ossetian election since the republic obtained its limited international recognition in 2008. The election was observed by over 70 representativesobservers from 10 countries,<ref name="novosti" /> including representatives from [[Abkhazia]], the [[Czech Republic]], [[Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Moldova]], [[Nagorno-Karabakh Republic|Nagorno-Karabakh]], [[Ukraine]], [[Poland]], and [[Russia]]. Among the observers were [[Vladimir Churov]], the chairman of the [[Central Election Commission of Russia]]<ref>{{cite web