Adopted by the party Bureau on October 17, 2009
An obvious fraud of the results of the voting on October
11, 2009, showed to the Russian society and the entire world
that the institute of democratic elections was virtually demolished
in Russia.
Instead of lawful elections the country saw that the law
was defeated by a group of persons who used their administrative
and political resource for illegitimate seizure of power.
Total administrative pressure and mass-scale fraud probed
and developed during previous election cycles reached unprecedented
scope. Violations in Moscow, the Moscow region, Astrakhan
and Derbent were particularly mass-scale, open and cynical.
It was the first time that electoral commissions refused
to register parties and candidates in the election race, thus
restricting the choice for the citizens under insignificant
and often completely unlawful cavil. For the first time the
capacity of state law-enforcement agencies was used during
collection of signatures and campaigning for pressing candidates
and observers, moreover representatives of these agencies
directly participated in the fraud.
Observers from different political parties at the elections
registered about 20 types of grave systematic and mass-scale
violations testifying of an overall election fraud.
None of the figures on the votes given for any of the political
parties participating in the elections of October 11, 2009,
can be recognized as trustworthy.
According to different estimates, the results of the YABLOKO
party in Moscow were lowered by about two thirds by the overall
fraud. The results of other political parties were also considerably
reduced, these parties fell victims of “throwing-in” of bulletins
in favour of the governmental Untied Russia party.
The fact that mass-scale fraud and pressures were applied
in accordance with the expectations of the leaders of the
country and the Moscow authorities were confirmed by the statements
of President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
and Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov that they were “satisfied
with the election results”. We are laying full blame of political
responsibility for the overall mockery of franchise in Russia
on the top leaders of the Russian Federation.
The Bureau of the YABLOKO party states that it does not recognize
the official results of the elections to the Moscow City Duma
considering them absolutely illegitimate and regards the official
percentage allegedly obtained by the Moscow branch of the
YABLOKO party as mass stealing of the votes rather than a
defeat in a fair competition.
We do not recognize the legitimacy of the Moscow City Duma
(Moscow parliament) which was formed due to multiple violations
of the Russian laws.
We demand that not only those who directly implemented these
multiple crimes against franchise, regardless of their number,
but also those who ordered and organised these crimes, regardless
of whoever they are, are found and brought to trial.
We also think that the “elections” in those municipal entities
of the Moscow region, in particular in the Klin, Shatura and
Stupino districts, where YABLOKO’s candidates and other candidates
were not allowed to participate in the election race, are
illegitimate. The YABLOKO party will use all the legal remedies
so that these elections be considered void and all those guilty
of violations be determined and punished.
Mass-scale franchise violations also took place in the Tula
region ranging from manipulations with mobile ballot boxes
to direct voter graft and purposeful distortion of electorate’s
expression of will. The information we dispose of allows us
to doubt the legitimacy of the election which took place in
this region on October 11, as well as the legitimacy of the
new legislative body of the Tula region.
We have no grounds to consider elections of the Mayor of
Derbent in any way free or legitimate, as voters were not
let to 13 out of 36 polling stations there, and voter access
to other polling stations was selective basing on political
loyalty to the present Mayor and the United Russia party.
The Bureau of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO
demands from the Office of the Public Prosecutor General of
the RF to conduct a complex inspection of the complaints of
the actions (or negligence) of election commissions in all
the Russian Federation subjects, as well as all the evidence
of fraud published in the mass media. We assume, that corresponding
measures of procuratorial response should be adopted, up to
applying to the courts with a claim to annul as unlawful the
official results of elections of deputies of the Moscow City
Duma, Mayors of Astrakhan and Derbent, and other bodies and
officials elected on October 11, 2009, with violations of
franchise.
The Bureau of the YABLOKO party insists on dissolution of
electoral commissions of all levels in Moscow, as well as
electoral commissions in other federation subjects where mass-scale
violations of franchise took place on October 11, 2009.
The newly formed electoral commissions of all the levels
should ensure that representatives from all the present Russia’s
political parties should have equal participation there with
a casting vote.
We demand conducting new elections to the Moscow City Duma,
the state power and local self-government bodies in other
federation subjects; whereas free and equal conditions for
all the political parties and candidates should be ensured,
new electoral commissions established and maximum public control
over elections and voting installed.
We are calling all the political parties and public associations,
all the citizens of Russia insulted by cynical flouting of
the fundamental civil and political rights of the citizens
to join this statement and support these claims, as well as
to add their efforts to ours in the fight for the institute
of lawful and fair elections in Russia which is the only basis
for formation of the lawful state power and local self-government
bodies.
We are also expressing our gratitude to all who has supported
us and is supporting us.
Sergei Mitrokhin,
Chairman of the YABLOKO party
See also:
Moscow City
Duma Elections, 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
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