The Supreme Soviet in Tiraspol voted again to reduce the minimum voter turnout from 50% to 25% of the voters included in the electoral rolls after the Transnistrian leader Yevgheny Shevchuk refused to promulgate such an initiative earlier, IPN reports.

The reduction in the minimum voter turnout was adopted in May owing to the high rate of migration and the risk that less than 50% of the voters will cast their ballots in the future ‘presidential’ elections in the region. Yevgheny Shevchuk refused then to promulgate the changes, invoking the lack of plausible reasons.