According to the results of voting on October 14, YABLOKO
factions will appear in four Russian cities: Yaroslavl, Pervouralsk,
Berezovsky in the Sverdlovsk region and Elektrogorsk in the
Moscow region.
The best result YABLOKO obtained in Pervouralsk - 20.4 per
cent. YABLOKO came second here after the ruling United Russia
with 37 per cent. Konstantin Drigin topping YABLOKOs will
also get a mandate. Drigin with 35 per cent of the vote won
over Valery Treskin, the ruling partys candidate, who got
25 per cent of the vote.
In Yaroslavl, the party has overcome the 5 per cent threashold.
The candidates running in single mandate electoral districts
failed to deputies of the Yaroslavl City Council, however
Galina Sokolova came second in her district with almost 26
per cent of the vote, and another eight candidates came third
in their districts getting from 7 to 19 per cent of the vote.
In the Berezovsky city, the Sverdlovsk region, 6.6 per cent
of the electorate voted for YABLOKO, and now the party will
have the right to form a faction in the Council of Deputies.
In Elektrogorsk, the Moscow region, YABLOKOs candidates got
9.2 per cent which also means that YABLOKO can form a faction
in the municipal assembly in the city.
YABLOKO candidate Alexei Zyablitsev became head of Shembetsky
rural settlement of the Kirov region, gaining over 30 per
cent of the votes.
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin said that the results of
the October elections show growing support for YABLOKO in
the small cities. "This is where the party got most of
the votes. This is a good trend, and we are satisfied with
it," he said.
According to Mitrokhin, "the following trend has manifested
itself: the smaller the territory, the better the result.
This is due to the fact that in small settlements it is possible
to cover almost 100 per cent of the polling stations with
trained observers.
"It was hard to count on getting outstanding results
in such large regions as Krasnodar and Udmurtia, where YABLOKO
severely criticized the authorities," Mitrokhin said.
He also explained that in such areas, it is impossible to
maintain control over most of the polling stations.
This morning, Sergei Mitrokhin sent to the Central Electoral
Commission, Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative
Committee a complaint on the most significant violations recorded
by YABLOKO candidates and observers in 13 regions (Tatarstan
and Udmurtia; Maritime, Krasnodar and Altai territories; Bryansk,
Ryazan, Saratov, Tula, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Irkutsk and Chelyabinsk
regions).
See also:
YABLOKO
in the regional and municipal elections on October 14, 2012.
Press Release, October 12, 2012.
Regional
and Local Elections 2012
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