YABLOKO submitted to the Central
Electoral Commission voters’ signatures for registration in the
election campaign
Press Release
October 17, 2011
Today, on October 17, YABLOKO submitted to the Central Electoral
Commission voters’ signatures required for party registration
in the parliamentary election campaign. Party activists and
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin brought to the Central Electoral
Commission 14 carton boxes decorated as wooden boxes with
apples (as “YABLOKO” means “apple” in Russian). The boxes
contained files with 157,471 signature and the accompanying
documents.
“I am certain that YABLOKO’s list will be registered,” Sergei
Mitrokhin said.
The initial inspection of the financial report lasted for
over an hour. Only after this the Central Electoral Commission
permitted to take the boxes with signatures into the Central
Electoral Commission office and launched recounting of signatures.
The next stage will be a random draw of several files with
signatures that will be checked by the Central Electoral Commission
experts. The Commission should conduct an audit of at least
20 per cent of signatures.
The results of the audit will be announced within ten days
in compliance with the law.
YABLOKO’s campaign of voters’ signatures collection began
on September 21 and lasted for three weeks. YABLOKO activists
managed to collect 203,000 signatures in 74 Russia’s regions.
According to the law, one region should not give over 5,000
signatures. Also 4,000 collectors of signatures participated
in this work.
Photos: Boxes with lists of signatures are
loaded into a minibus
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin by the Central Electoral
Commission office.
Photo: Sergei Danilenko, member of Central
Electoral Commission, and Sergei Mitrokhin
