YABLOKO Congress called people
to become observers from YABLOKO at the forthcoming elections
Press Release
December 19, 2011
YABLOKO has announced "YABLOKOs subscription":
the party called citizens to become observers at the forthcoming
presidential elections, and invites those who have already
worked as observers at the parliamentary elections to become
YABLOKO members. YABLOKO will continue participating in protest
actions against election fraud calling the citizens to seek
annulment of the elections. Such decisions were adopted by
YABLOKO Congress held on December 18.
The decision of the Congress runs that YABLOKO does not recognize
the results of the parliamentary elections, considers the
State Duma formed via rigged voting illegitimate and demands
recognition of the elections void. Delegates of the Congress
also indicated that collection of signatures for participation
in election campaigns for non-parliamentary parties should
be abolished, also the threashold for passing into the State
Duma should be reduced to 3 per cent. It was also stressed
that all the political organisations wishing to take part
in elections should have access to elections and public organizations
should get the right to nominate observers for elections.
The Congress also demanded dismissal of head of the Central
Electoral Commission Vladimir Churov, dissolution of electoral
commissions at all levels and formation of new commissions.
YABLOKO also appealed to the citizens of Russia inviting
them to participate in the municipal (as members) and the
presidential elections (as observers).
"We are appealing to all the caring citizens: do not
allow for fraud at presidential elections, become electoral
commission member, become an observer! If there are several
observers at every polling station, every territorial electoral
commission, then it will be much difficult to fraud with the
votes!" runs the decision of the Congress.
The document also contains an assessment of the parliamentary
elections. YABLOKO marked toughening of the electoral law
"favourable for the ruling party and extremely unfavourable
for the non-parliamentary opposition," especially in
the part of collection of signatures for registration in the
campaigns for non-parliamentary parties.
"Also prices for advertising and broadcasting and publications
grew even more. And orders for governor and mayors as far
as the ruling party results were concerned became even tougher.
But the main thing about the recent elections was open and
shameless violation of the law based on a impunity."
Polling stations with a 100 per cent turn out and almost
100 vote for the ruling United Russia party were found not
only in the Caucasus republics, Mordovia, Komi, Tatarstan
and other national republics but also in Moscow (eg, polling
station No 3249: 100 per cent turnout, 96.2 per cent for United
Russia; polling station No 3236: 100% turnout, 93.1 per cent
for United Russia; polling station No 3242: 100 per cent turnout,
83.8 per cent for United Russia).
YABLOKO also stated that according to the data from observers
and exit polls, the party overcame the 7 per cent threashold
to the parliament: the differences between the protocols given
to observers and the official results are great.
Despite massive fraud, the results of the party demonstrated
sufficient increase of its support: even according to the
Central Electoral Commission data, YABLOKO was supported by
2.3 million voters. This support was the highest support in
the large cities (as of the official data below): over 10
per cent in St Petersburg and Petrozavodsk, over 8 per cent
in Moscow and Pskov, over 7 per cent in Yekaterinburg, Arkhangelsk,
Tver, Perm and Tomsk, over 6 per cent in Irkutsk , Murmansk,
Yaroslavl, Tula, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Vladivostok, over
5 per cent in Rostov-upon-Don, Vologda, Kaluga, Krasnoyarsk,
Samara, Novgorod, Volgograd, Ivanovo, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the
Khanty-Mansiysk, Vladimir, Omsk , Khabarovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,
Ryazan and Kostroma. In the 31 regions the party won over
3 per cent.
