Following the referendum results, the independence from Moldova was supported by 96% of citizens
When the Moldova’s parliament passed the discriminative language laws in August, 1989 and set an obvious course for the unification with Romania, there left no way any more, but to create the own state in Pridnestrovie. Only the democratic mechanisms could be used to solve this problem, i.e.: the local referenda and the Congresses of the Pridnestrovie’s Deputies which transformed into the legitimate power institutes later.
Then the plebiscites were carried out in every Pridnestrovie’s city. The first one took place in Rybnitsa on December 3, 1989.
The Tiraspol referendum took place on January 28, 1990. Further, it was organized in the Rashkov village, the Kamenka region on March 25, 1990.
91.3% of the Rybnitsa residents, 96% of the Tiraspol residents, 95.7% of Rashkovo people cast their affirmative votes for the Pridnestrovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic creation as a part of Soviet Union.
Notably that 81.1% of the people from the electoral registers participated in the vote in Rybnitsa then, in Tiraspol – 92,3%, in the Rashkovo village – 88.1%.
The same referenda took place in Bendery and Dubossary, in the villages of Rybnitsa and Slobodzeya regions in the summer of 1990. They were carried out in all localities of Pridnestrovie until the end of 1990.
As a result, 370 thousands (79%) of 471 thousands of the registered people cast their votes. 355 thousands (95.8% of voters or 75.3% o the people from the electoral registers) of people voted for the creation of their own state.
The historical Second Congress of Deputies took place in Tiraspol on September 2, 1990 when the establishment of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed.
