South Ossetia will hold presidential polls with 17 candidates on the 13th of November 2011. The process will resemble the parliamentary polls of 2009. Tskhinvali will open an information center for electoral commissions at Theater Square with an electronic voting panel with information.
CEC Chairman Bela Pliyeva says almost everyone is ready for the voting process, 34,000 people in South Ossetia and 16,000 more citizens of South Ossetia living in Russia’s North Ossetia-Alania will vote.
Chairman of the Russian Central Electoral Commission Vladimir Churov and officials from the CECs of Trans-Dniester, Abkhazia and North Ossetia were invited.
Pliyeva denied numeration of voting sheets. Anonymity of voting will be fulfilled. A representatives from each of the 17 candidates will monitor the process.
The CEC head accepted proposals to ban signing of candidacy lists by citizens. The issue will be decided on by the parliament. Pliyeva added that there had been no violations so far.
