| Natalya Yarigina, observer from the COPRF (the communist
party) in polling station No 2637 in Moscow, was detained
by the police after she refused to redistribute YABLOKOs
votes between United Russia, CPRF and Just Russia parties
and then called head of the electoral commission a groveller,
Yarigina told to Gazeta.ru.
Head of the commission Nadezhda Gazina attacked me with
fists when I asked her if she like to be a groveller. Then
her husband joined her. They were pulled off by the students
who were with us at the polling station. Gazina complained
on me at the police stating that I had allegedly beaten her,
now I am taken to the police department and they are going
to file a criminal case against me, Yarigina said.
According to Yarigina, head of the electoral commission offered
a bribe to all the members of the electoral commission in
exchange for their help in counting of the votes given for
YABLOKO in favour of other parties passing into the State
Duma. She explained us that everything had been determined
already and nothing depended on us, and this made me revolt.
At our polling station YABLOKO obtained 19.2 per cent. However,
they probably do not have it now already, added the detained.
YABLOKO Chair Sergei Mitrokhin had made a statement earlier
that his party could recognize elections to the State Duma
illegitimate due to mass-scale violations at polling stations.
See also:
The
original publication
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
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