Two candidates – Anatoly Makarov and Olga Kurmanskaya –
supported by the YABLOKO party got mandates in the Astrakhan
City Duma. Both Makarov and Kurmanskaya led in the vote
in their electoral districts getting 66.7 and 56.9 per cent
of the votes, respectively.
Other YABLOKO’s candidates – Tatyana Semyonova, Igor Avdeyev
and Oleg Alexeyev – obtained from 7 to 18 per cent of the
votes failing to win the mandates.
“All the participants of the electoral process mark the
imitational character of the election to the city parliament.
All the results of the voting have been falsified to a lesser
of greater extent: for example, there were cases when about
30 per cent of the electorate at one of the electoral districts
voted per-term and all for the same candidate,” noted Vadim
Monin, leader of the Astrakhan branch of YABLOKO.
Candidates from the YABLOKO party Tatyana Semyonova and
Sergei Gevorkyan plan to apply to court demanding to recognise
the elections void in view of multiple violations of election
laws.
According to Monin, YABLOKO demonstrated high results at
the elections to the Astrakhan City Duma even despite of
the fraud, which raises the forecast for YABLOKO at the
coming elections to the regional parliament that will take
place in 2011.
See also:
Regional
and Local Elections 2010
YABLOKO obtains 11 per
cent of the votes in Tula. Press Release. March 15, 2010
YABLOKO participates
in local elections in 15 Russia’s regions. Press Release.
March 14, 2010
Tula region: violations
elections to the regional parliament. Press Release. March
14, 2010
Progovernmental
United Russia is buying off votes in Tula. Statement by
the party Chairman. March 12, 2010
Mass-scale buying of votes
in favour of the United Russia and the Just Russia party
observed at pre-term elections in Tula. Press Release, March
10, 2010
