YABLOKO enters litigation disputing
the decision of the regional electoral commission
Press Release
February 19, 2010
Litigation initiated by the YABLOKO party disputing the
refusal of the regional electoral commission to register
YABLOKO’s list in the election race to the regional parliament
began in the Sverdlovsk Region Court on February 18.
At the first hearings a representative of the regional
electoral commission stated that neither members of the
electoral commission nor YABLOKO could be regarded as graphology
experts, so their opinions concerning the verdicts of graphology
experts were subjective and the court should not take these
into account. On the other hand, he turned down the proposal
to conduct another graphology expertise stating that the
law did not envisage that a second graphology expertise
may be held, thus such an expertise allegedly could not
be disputed at all. Moreover he stated that the choice of
graphology experts was the prerogative of the regional electoral
commission.
The leader of Sverdolovsk YABLOKO Maxim Petlin said “We
have just begun our analysis of the lists of signatures
rejected by the commission, as the commission have refused
to give them to us until this moment, we shall work throughout
all the four days-off [February 20-23] and I am sure that
by [the next hearings] February 24 we shall have a lot of
arguments supporting our position.”
The next hearings in the Sverdlovsk Region Court are scheduled
on February 24.
The hearings on YABLOKO’s suit in the Kaluga region are
also scheduled on February 24.
