Press Release, 10.09.2019

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.

The appeal contains the most striking facts of violations as of municipal districts, where voting results have not yet been announced.

Ella Pamfilova informed Viktor Minenko, Chairman of the Electoral Commission of St. Petersburg, about Yabloko’s appeal and demanded that check on all the facts of violations of the law that are listed in the document be conducted.

Pamfilova also assured the Deputy Chairman of Yabloko that the Central Electoral Commission would keep the situation under control.

Yabloko will conduct an additional investigation into violations in all the municipalities of St. Petersburg and send a report to the Central Electoral Commission, Rybakov said. “We must protect the votes of the residents of St.Petersburg for our candidates. And where the falsifications do not allow establishing the results, the elections should be canceled and a new vote and an honest vote count should be conducted,” Rybakov said.

It should be noted that Yabloko nominated more than 400 candidates for municipal deputies of St. Petersburg. So far, it is reported that about 100 candidates have been able to become deputies. However, the data have not yet been entered into the GAS Vybory system [the federal data base on voting in all elections] in a significant part of the municipal districts where the Yabloko won.