The Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic was adopted during December 24, 1995 national referendum and signed by the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic on January 17, 1996.

Current wording includes amendments introduced by the June 30, 2000 of the Constitutional Law N310;

Dated from June 30, 2000 No. 310-Constitutional Law of Amendments and Additions (newspaper "Pridnestrovie" from July 12, 2000,

Dated from July 13, 2000 No. 132-133);

Dated from July 13, 2005 No. 593- Constitutional Law of Amendments and Additions -III (The Collection of Legislative Acts 05-29);

Dated from February 10, 2006 No. 1- Constitutional Law of Amendments and Additions -IV (The Collection of Legislative Acts 06-7);

Dated from July 4, 2011 No. 94- Constitutional Law of Amendments and Additions -V (The Collection of Legislative Acts 11-27);

Dated from May 19, 2016 No. 127- Constitutional Law of Amendments and Additions -VI (The Collection of Legislative Acts 16-20);

Dated from June 2, 2016 No. 144- Constitutional Law of Amendments -VI (The Collection of Legislative Acts 16-22);

Dated from July 27, 2016 No. 196- Constitutional Law of Amendments -VI (The Collection of Legislative Acts 16-30);

Dated from August 18, 2016 (newspaper "Pridnestrovie" from September 23, 2016 No. 175 (5617)); from January 30, 2017 No. 24- Constitutional Law of Amendments -VI (The Collection of Legislative Acts 17-6);

Dated from February 2, 2018 No. 21- Constitutional Law of Amendments -VI (The Collection of Legislative Acts 18-5);

Dated from March 12, 2018 No. 62- Constitutional Law of Amendments and Additions -VI (The Collection of Legislative Acts 18-11);

Dated from November 23, 2018 No. 315- Constitutional Law of Amendments-VI (The Collection of Legislative Acts 18-47);

Dated from July 23, 2019 No. 141- Constitutional Law of Amendments-VI (The Collection of Legislative Acts 19-28).

We, the multinational people of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic,

- united by a common fate on our land;

- establishing human rights and freedoms, as well as free development of a person;

- proceeding from the responsibility for our Motherland before present and future generations;

- confirming our commitment to the common to all mankind values, striving for life in peace and harmony with all peoples according to generally recognized principles and norms of international law;

- establishing the legal state, which would ensure the rule of law as an expression of will of the people;

- revering the memory of ancestors, who have passed on to us their love and respect for the Motherland;

- striving to ensure the well-being and prosperity of Pridnestrovie,

do hereby adopt the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic

SECTION I. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM

Article 1

The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is a sovereign, independent, democratic, legal state.

Its people are the bearer of sovereignty and the only source of power in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

The people shall exercise its power directly, as well as through bodies of state power and institutions of local self-government.

The supreme direct expression of the power of the people shall be referendum and free elections

Nobody may usurp power in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. The seizure of power and appropriation of powers of authority are the gravest crime against the people.

Article 2

The Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is of highest legal force and direct action. Bodies of state power and management, institutions of local self-government, officials, public associations and citizens must observe the Constitution and laws of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Article 3

Citizenship of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall be acquired and terminated in accordance with the constitutional law and shall be one and equal, irrespective of the grounds on which it is acquired.

Every citizen of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic may not be deprived of his (her) citizenship or of the right to change it. A citizen of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic may have a citizenship of another state, i.e. - double citizenship.

Unless otherwise provided by law, foreign citizens and stateless persons shall enjoy rights and freedoms exercised by citizens of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Article 4

State, private, and other forms of ownership shall be recognized in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

All forms of ownership shall be protected by the state on an equal basis.

Article 5

Land, waters, forests, airspace, as well as other natural resources shall be objects of exclusive ownership of the state. Plots can be in the lifelong use of citizens with the right of succession, with their maximum size and the order of using stipulated by law.

Article 6

State power in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall be exercised on the basis of its division into legislative, executive, and judicial authority. Bodies of legislative, executive, and judicial authority, within their own competences, shall be independent.

Article 7

In the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, a local self-government is recognized and ensured, consisting of Soviets of People's Deputies and organs of territorial public self-government, which directly, or through their elected organs, independently tackle social, economic, political, and cultural issues of local importance, proceeding from the state interests and interests of the population of their respective administrative territorial formation.

Article 8

The state, its bodies and officials shall act in the conditions of democratic diversity of political institutions and opinions.

The state shall regulate relations between social, national and other communities on the basis of principles of equality and respect for their rights and interests.

The activity of public formations, their bodies and representatives shall be prohibited, which is aimed against sovereignty of the Republic, at forcible change of foundations of the constitutional system, at undermining security of the state, at establishment of illegal armed formations, at stirring up racial, national or religious discord.

Article 9

The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall be a secular state. No religion may be established as the State religion or as obligatory.

Religious associations shall be separate from the State and shall be equal before the law.

Article 10

Foreign policy of the Republic shall proceed from the principles of sovereign equality of states, non-use of force, peaceful settlement of disputes, non-interference in internal affairs of other states.

Universally recognized principles and norms of international law, as well as international treaties of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, shall be the basis for relations with other states and the constituent part of the legal system.

Article 11

To defend sovereignty and independence of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, the Armed Forces shall be established.

The order of establishment and activity of the Armed Forces shall be determined by the law.

Article 12

Status of the official language on an equal basis shall be given to the Moldavian, Russian, and Ukrainian languages.

Article 13

The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall have its own national flag, National Emblem and state anthem, which are symbols of the republic and shall be approved by the law.

The Capital of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall be the city of Tiraspol.

Article 14

The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall consist of the following towns - Bendery (with villages - Varnitsa, Ghyska, Protyagailovka), Dubossary, Rybnitsa, Tiraspol; and Grigoriopol, Dubossary, Kamenka, Slobodzea, Rybnitsa regions.

Borders and territory of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall be determined by the law.

Article 15

Provisions of this Section of the Constitution shall constitute the principles of the constitutional system of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and cannot be changed otherwise than provided by this Constitution.

Other provisions of the Constitution cannot be inconsistent with the principles of the constitutional system of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.