The presidential elections in South Ossetia were held to the highest score on a five-point scale of assessments, and from the point of view of observing democratic principles and voter activity, as well as political culture, no violations were revealed, said Sergei Tsekov, a member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, who is taking part in monitoring the presidential elections in the Republic.
"From the point of view of observance of democratic principles - absolute observance - I would put "5" on a five-point scale of assessments, there are no violations. In terms of activity - also "5" - more than 80 percent came to the elections. In terms of political culture, after the elections is also a high assessment, because the first two leaders of this election race recognized the results, they are ready for the second round. I have a very high assessment of the past elections," Tsekov said.
He has added that observers from the Russian Federation visited a number of polling stations during the voting, also visited one of the polling stations during the counting of votes, where, according to him, voters above the list were voting, no violations there were also no recorded any violations.
On Sunday, voting in the presidential elections took place in South Ossetia, the elections were recognized successful, the turnout was 82.07%. The incumbent head of state Anatoly Bibilov and the leader of the Nykhas political party Alan Gagloev advanced to the second round,
The candidate who receives more than half of the votes is considered elected. If three or more candidates participate in the elections, but none of them receives the required number of votes, a second round of voting is held within two weeks. It involves two candidates who received the largest number of votes in the first round. The winner is determined by a simple majority of votes. To recognize the second round of elections successful, more than 30% of the voters included in the electoral lists must take part in the voting. The ballot papers provide the opportunity to vote against all candidates.
