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YABLOKO refuses to recognize the results of the Moscow City Duma election

Press Release
October 14, 2009

Valery Goryachev, member of the Moscow Electoral Commission with a casting vote from the YABLOKO party, refused to recognize the results of the Moscow City Duma election. He and his colleague in the Moscow Electoral Commission Dmitry Yezhevsky (from the CPRF) have been preparing their dissenting opinion to the final protocol they must sign anyway in accordance with the law.

On October 14, the meeting of the Moscow Electoral Commission recognized the Sunday election to the Moscow City Duma and confirmed the results of the voting. Representative from the LDPR party Ivan Petrov refused to sign the final protocol, thus, loosing the right to his dissenting opinion.

According to Goryachev, such non-recognition of the election is conditioned by a “huge number of violations in drawing the results of the voting by the inferior commissions, first of all, by the local commissions at the polling stations.” Goryachev also added that YABLOKO’s observers reported considerable discrepancies between the prime protocols of the local commissions and the final protocol of the Moscow Electoral Commission.

Goryachev also pointed out such grave violations as adding of fraudulent bulletins into the ballot box, refusals to give copies of voting protocols to the observers and ousting observers from the oppositional parties from the polling stations.

Goryachev told that the Moscow Electoral Commission refused to examine the complaints of the oppositional parties at its meeting, sending some of the complaints to the subordinate electoral commissions and the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

“According to our data, YABLOKO gathered 12% of the votes at the election. Fraud bit almost two thirds of our votes,” YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin noted adding that this made even a larger percentage compared to the State Duma election in 2007. “Once again we were demonstrated that Russia not only lacks fair elections, but it lacks elections at all,” Mitrokhin said.

See also:
Elections to the Moscow City Duma, 2009

Election fraud at the Moscow City Duma elections. From the Live Journal of Igor Yakovlev, Press Secretary of the YABLOKO party

Violations at the Moscow City Duma elections. Press Release. October 12, 2009


 

 

Press Release

October 14, 2009