| The YABLOKO intends to file a court request that the
results of the parliamentary elections in December be invalidated. The
party also intends to sue the electoral commissions which it believes
to be responsible for distortion of the election results.
YABLOKO has performed a parallel count of the votes together with the
communists. Deputy Chairman of the YABLOKO party Sergei
Mitrokhin told the Vremya Novostei correspondent that by now YABLOKO
had re-counted 10% of the votes and the CPRF had checked over 50%. "It
is obvious already now that the results of the elections were distorted,
and that YABLOKO was deprived of votes, while votes were added to United
Russia’s total," said Mitrokhin. In addition, according to
YABLOKO's data over 16% of the checked protocols made by the observers
have discrepancies with the official data provided by the Central Electoral
Commission. YABLOKO does not rule out that all the lawsuits will be conducted
jointly with the CPRF.
Yesterday the Central Electoral Commission adopted at its meeting draft
answers to the leaders of YABLOKO and CPRF Grigory
Yavlinsky and Gennady Zyuganov who submitted the results of the alternative
vote recount to the Central Electoral Commission.According to the Central
Electoral Commission, there are no grounds for questioningthe election
results.
See also:
State Duma elections
2003
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