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2006 South Ossetian presidential election

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Field	Value
country	South Ossetia
type	presidential
previous_election	2001 South Ossetian presidential election
previous_year	2001
next_election	2011 South Ossetian presidential election
next_year	2011
election_date	12 November 2006
image1	Kokojty detail.jpg
nominee1	Eduard Kokoity
colour1	1C408A
party1	Unity Party (South Ossetia)
popular_vote1	51,150
percentage1	98.06%
image2	Leonid Tibilov 2 (cropped).jpeg
nominee2	Leonid Tibilov
party2	Independent politician
popular_vote2	476
percentage2	0.91%
title	President
before_election	Eduard Kokoity
before_party	Unity Party (South Ossetia)
after_election	Eduard Kokoity
after_party	Unity Party (South Ossetia)

Presidential elections were held in South Ossetia on 12 November 2006, coinciding with the South Ossetian independence referendum. Incumbent Eduard Kokoity was seeking a second full five-year term. He was re-elected with more than 98% of the vote. According to the de facto authorities, the election was monitored by a team of 34 international observers from Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden and other countries at 78 polling stations. The election process was criticised by local civic society and the results were deemed likely to be inflated.

Results

Alternative elections and referendum

South Ossetian opposition politicians, some of whom had left Tskhinvali due to a conflict with the de facto president Eduard Kokoity, set up an alternative Central Election Commission and nominated their candidates for presidency: Gogi Chigoyev, Teimuraz Djeragoyev, Tamar Charayeva, and Dmitry Sanakoyev, who served as defense minister and then as prime minister for several months in 2001 under Kokoity's predecessor, Ludwig Chibirov. Voters were also to answer a question: "do you agree with the renewal of talks with Georgia on a federal union." The alternative elections and referendum were held in the villages with mixed Georgian-Ossetian population not controlled by the secessionist government. The Salvation Union of South Ossetia which organised the election turned down a request from a Georgian NGO, “Multinational Georgia”, to monitor it and the released results were also very likely to be inflated.

References

Georgia: South Ossetia Seeks To Contain Opposition Challenge, Radio Free Europe, 2006-11-10
Staging ‘Alternative Choice’ for S.Ossetia, Online Magazine - Civil Georgia, November 7, 2006.
South Ossetia to Elect Two Presidents, Kommersant, November 11, 2006.
Georgia: South Ossetia Seeks To Contain Opposition Challenge, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, November 10, 2006.

References

link. (2008-08-13 , Civil.ge, November 11, 2006)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070613045158/http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/europe/caucasus/183_georgia_s_south_ossetia_conflict_make_haste_slowly.pdf Georgia’s South Ossetia Conflict: Make Haste Slowly], Europe Report N°183, 7 June 2007

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