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The Central Electoral Commission has registered YABLOKO’s
list of candidates for the parliamentary elections. The party
has been formally acknowledged a participant in the forthcoming
election campaign.
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, Alexei Yablokov, number
three in the party election list and head of YABLOKO’s Green
Russia faction, Svetlana Kuznetsova, head of Soldiers’ Mothers
faction, Valery Borschyov Co-Chair of the Human Rights faction,
Boris Misnik, member of Political Committee and Valery Goryachev,
Executive Secretary of YABLOKO Bureau. Head of the Central
Electoral Commission Vladimir Churov handed them parliamentary
candidates cards.
Speaking before the Central Electoral Commission Sergei Mitrokhin
expressed his “hope that these elections will be free and
fair”. He recollected the situation when YABLOKO did not get
a single vote in favour of the party at the polling station
where Mitrokhin and his family voted for YABLOKO during Moscow
parliamentary elections in 2009. “I hope there will be no
way for such accidents at over 100,000 Russia’s polling stations
any more,” Mitrokhin said.
YABLOKO’s list contains 353 candidates in 78 regional groups.
The list is topped by Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO’s founder,
Sergei Mitrokhin, the current leader and Alexei Yablokov,
head of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction.
YABLOKO had to collect 203,000 voters’ signatures to get
registration in the campaign, 157,000 were submitted to the
Central Electoral Commission for the audit. The Commission
found minor faults only in 2.3 per cent of signatures and
registered YABLOKO in the election race.
Photo: Commission member Sergei Danilenko
resports on registration of YABLKO in the race
Photo: Vladimir Churov, Commission head, hands
candiate card to Sergei Mitrokhin
Photo: (from left to right) YABLOKO candidates:
Valery Borschyov, Valery Goryachev, Svetlana Kuznetsova and
Sergei Mitrokhin
See also:
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
YABLOKO submitted
to the Central Electoral Commission voters’ signatures for
registration in the election campaign. Press Release, October
17, 2011.
YABLOKO collected
203,000 signatures for registration in the parliamentary election
campaign. Press Release, Video, October 13, 2011
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