A rally for fair elections and against election fraud
have just ended at Bolotnaya square, Moscow. The rally organised
by the YABLOKO party have gathered 5,000 people. Grigory Yavlinsky,
Vladimir Milov, leader of the Democratic Choice movement,
Vladimir Ryzhkov, co-chair of PARNAS, representatives of Just
Russia Dmitry Gudkov and Ilya Ponomaryov, Boris Nadezhdin,
head of the Moscow region branch of the Right Cause, leaders
of public organisations and movements and citizens who acted
as observers at the election of December 4 spoke at the rally.
The resolution of the rally was read by Grigory Yavlinsky.
The participants of the rally demanded immediate release of
all those detained during protest actions against election
fraud, abrogation of the results of the voting, investigation
of the fraud and punishment of those guilty of fraud.
Also the resolution contains a demand to dismiss head of the
Central Electoral Commission Vladimir Churov and dissolve
the vertical of electoral commissions, immediate registration
of all the political parties and conducting of new elections
with participation of newly registered parties.
Yavlinsky called to continue protest actions against election
fraud and make a Churov list which would include names of
electoral commissions heads at the polling stations demonstrating
mass-scale fraud and violations. He also called the participants
of the rally to become observers at presidential elections
and also participate in municipal elections of March 4.
We are the citizens! We determine who is the authority!
We will defend our votes! We are for a democratic Russia!
The authorities should be controlled by the citizens! Russia
demands changes! concluded Yavlinsky.
See also:
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
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