A “memorial action of the deceased fair elections” has
begun by the Central Electoral Commission Moscow office and
in other cities. The action was launched by YABLOKO leader
Sergei Mitrokhin by laying flowers to the Central Electoral
Commission Moscow office at noon.
December 4 marks a mournful date. A year ago our country
suffered a terrible loss: elections to the State Duma which
took place on this day hammered the last nail in the coffin
of fair elections. On this sad anniversary of the death of
“this most important democratic procedure” Mitrokhin invited
everyone to “honour the memory of the deceased and bring white
carnations to the main entrance of the Central Electoral Commission
(CEC) office.
Police and riot police have been on guard by the CEC office
since morning.
However, the police do not prevent laying of the flowers
to the CEC office at Bolshoi Cherkassky 9. Activists lay flowers
on a wide window sill of the old mansion.
Answering journalists’ questions about YABLOKO reaction on
the CEC statement that if YABLOKO did not recognize the results
of the voting, then it would be "logical" for YABLOKO
to refuse the state financing [allotted to all the political
parties in Russia that obtaining over three 3 per cent at
the elections].
“A year has passed but Vladimir Churov, [head of the Central
Electoral Commission], has not realized that votes were stolen
from us, it was not us who stole the votes. And the money
we get comes from our voters, and Churov does not have any
right to recommend what we should do with this money because
it is out of his competence,” Mitrokhin said.
Mitrokhin also noted that a party gets funding for every
vote cast for the party at elections. “The stolen votes mean
that funds were stolen from us,” he added.
Today YABLOKO activists have been laying white carnations
to electoral commissions in Ufa, Saransk, Kazan, Izhevsk,
Voronezh, Kirov, Penza, Pskov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tula, Vladimir,
Vologda and Novgorod.
Photographs
and a video
See also:
State Duma
Elections 2011
Sergei
Mitrokhin: December 4 marks commemoration of fair elections.
Sergei
Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi Radio Station web-site,
November 28, 2012
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