Press Release, 10.09.2024

In the recent elections, nine out of 59 candidates from the Yabloko party, who campaigned under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”, were elected to municipal councils. In total, the party nominated 301 candidates, but most of them were not registered or were withdrawn for far-fetched reasons. The party leaders summed up the political results of the election campaign.

The Pskov Yabloko team received seven mandates. Two Yabloko deputies will work in the Councils of the Plussky, Dnovsky and Usvyatsky municipal districts. In the Porkhov municipal district, our voters will be represented by one deputy. In the first three districts, the Yabloko list took second place, receiving from 10.3% to 13.6%. It should be noted that the Pskov Region is one of the few regions that have retained elections at the district, the lowest, level by party lists. The party’s election headquarters in the Pskov Region will announce the names of new deputies within a week.

In the Ryazan Region, the current deputy of the Zaboryevsky rural settlement, Anatoly Kivva, was re-elected for a second term, coming second in the multi-mandate district and receiving 11.89%.

In the Novgorod Region, the Yabloko team managed to get Yelena Tulina, a teacher of  Russian language and literature, elected as deputy in the Trubichinsky rural settlement. The candidate for peace and freedom received the support of 25.15% of voters.

15 Yabloko candidates came second in the elections in single-mandate and multi-mandate constituencies.

The voting took place over several days, with the use of the remote e-voting (in some regions) and without participation of independent electoral commissions members. A strict filter of collection of voters’ or municipal deputies’ signatures in favour of registration of a canidate and administrative pressure in many regions did not allow Yabloko to conduct a campaign. All of the aforementioned does not allow us to agree with the official figures on the turnout and the results.

Thus, the elections of the head in the Gdov District of the Pskov Region were held with the use of smear political technologies, direct violations of federal and regional legislation, pressure on election participants and residents. Read more on this in the statement of the Pskov Yabloko. The Yabloko party, the candidate Yevgeny Vasiliyev and the Yabloko member of the regional electoral commission filed statements to the Investigative Committee, the police, the public prosecutor’s office and the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation in connection with numerous cases of lawlessness. Yabloko considers its candidate Yevgeny Vasiliyev to be the de facto winner of the elections.