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The electoral commission of the municipality of Smolninskoye approved the election results. The victory in the municipality, on the territory of which the building of the government of St. Petersburg is located, was won by candidates from Yabloko. The party got seven mandates there, activists of the movement “The Central District for a Comfortable Living Environment” obtained six mandates and the activists from the headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny got three mandates. The election results were announced only on 12 September; almost four days after the voting. Before that candidates were trying to make the electoral commission enter the data on voting into the GAS Vybory system for more than a day.
Termination of judicial and criminal prosecution of citizens for political reasons. Muscovites, who actively express their protest against systematic fraud of elections be authorities, have every reason to protest, including in the form of peaceful demonstrations and rallies. Political reprisals must be stopped immediately, sentences canceled. A decision obliging the Moscow authorities to ensure safety of residents of Moscow must be adopted, beatings of peaceful protesters must be completely ruled out.
A press conference of the Moscow City Duma deputies from the Yabloko party will be held at the Press Centre of the Interfax news agency on Monday, September 16, at 14:00. The topic of the press-conference is “Election results and work plan of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma”.
On the night of September 11-12, the electoral commission of the municipality Ostrov Dekabristov (Vasileostrovsky District) drew up the election results. The electoral commission manually recounted all ballots in one of the two constituencies (constituency No 22) because of a “typographical error”: there was a small black dot in the forms opposite the name of Natalya Ivanova, candidate from the ruling United Russia party, which was allegedly counted as votes by ballot paper processing machines. However, after the recount, it turned out that Ivanova, another United Russia candidate Olga Poghosyan and LDPR candidate Anastasia Davydova, got the majority, ousting Yabloko representatives, instead of getting a lower number of votes.
Nikolai Rybakov, head of the Yabloko election headquarters and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, met with Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, and handed her an appeal on the fraud in municipal elections in St. Petersburg.
Yabloko conducted two election campaigns in the Sverdlovsk region. Irina Skachkova, Deputy Chair of the regional branch of the party, ran for the State Duma in Serov single-mandate constituency No. 174, and Dmitry Golovin ran for the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region in Ordzhonikidze single-mandate constituency No. 11.
The single voting day of September 8 was successful for the Yabloko party. The party was able to double the number of deputies in regional parliaments, and the number of regions where the party is represented in the legislative assemblies increased from three to five.
In addition, candidates from Yabloko were elected heads of three districts in the Pskov Region, and 26 candidates became municipal deputies in nine Russian regions.
Three candidates from the Yabloko party were elected heads of municipals districts Dnovsky, Novorzhevsky and Pustoshkinsky in the Pskov Region in elections on 8 September: Sofya Pugacheva (Novorzhevsky district, 45.95% of the vote at a turnout of 52.53%), Svetlana Vasilkova (Pustoshkinsky district, 53.35% of the vote, the opponent from United Russia got 36.58%, at a turnout of 49.46%) and Mikhail Shaurkin (Dnovsky district, 63.75% of the vote, he won in all (!) the polling stations over the candidate from United Russia who got 23.07%, at a turnout of 44.88%).
The Yabloko party demanded that the Central Electoral Commission, the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office prevent the rigging of the results of the municipal elections in St. Petersburg
The relevant appeals to the heads of departments were sent by the party Chair Emilia Slabunova.
Arthur Gaiduk, ambulance doctor and deputy of the Pskov City Duma, has won by-elections to the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies (the regional parliament) in single-mandate constituency No. 2, receiving over 40% of the vote. He left behind Igor Maximov, former vice-governor and candidate from the ruling United Russia party, who got 32% of votes.
Electoral commissions of the municipalities of St. Petersburg, where Yabloko candidates won, refuse to draw up the election results. This situation is observed in the vast majority of electoral commissions of the Central District (Liteiny, Smolninsky and Vladimirsky), where Yabloko has received up to 80% of the mandates.
Photo: elected deputies from Yabloko in the Smolninskoye municipal district hold the first meeting and are on duty in the administration building of the Central District of St. Petersburg so that the victory is not stolen by the electoral commission.
Viktor Fedoreyev, engineer, who won the elections to the Legislative Duma of the Khabarovsk Territory (a regional parliament) in the Amur single-mandate constituency, became the sixth regional deputy elected from Yabloko on a single voting day of September 8.
According to preliminary data, all four Yabloko candidates to the Moscow City Duma won in their constituencies. This means that a new Moscow City Duma may see a faction, which will include Sergei Mitrokhin, Yevgeny Bunimovich, Maxim Kruglov and Daria Besedina. This will be the largest fraction in the entire history of the Yabloko participation in the Moscow City Duma elections.
Photo (from left to right): Yabloko deputies in the new Moscow City Duma – Yevgeny Bunomovich, Daria Besedina, Maxim Kruglov and Sergei Mitrokhin
Yesterday, Konstantin Kotov, 34-year-old programmer, was sentenced to four years of imprisonment. At the absence of corpus delicti. He was sentenced for publicly protesting against the actions of the authorities.
On the Single Voting Day on 8 September, the Yabloko party’s election headquarters (Moscow, Pyatnitskaya 31 bldg. 2) will launch a hotline that will receive calls from observers at polling stations in 31 regions of Russia. The headquarters will be open for journalists from 3 p.m.
Muscovites are asking what to do on the voting day of 8 September, because almost all candidates independent of the authorities were not allowed to run for the Moscow City Duma?
Yevgeny Bunimovich, candidate to the Moscow City Duma and Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Moscow, appealed to Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Russian Minister of Interior, and Yuri Chaika, Public Prosecutor General, with a request to initiate a criminal case on the fact of production and distribution of fake campaign materials through the mailboxes of residents of his constituency.
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will visit Chelyabinsk on Friday, 6 September, so that to support party candidates in the elections to the Council of the City Districts.
