Valery Goryachev, member of the Moscow Electoral Commission
with a casting vote from the YABLOKO party, refused to recognize
the results of the Moscow City Duma election. He and his colleague
in the Moscow Electoral Commission Dmitry Yezhevsky (from
the CPRF) have been preparing their dissenting opinion to
the final protocol they must sign anyway in accordance with
the law.
On October 14, the meeting of the Moscow Electoral Commission
recognized the Sunday election to the Moscow City Duma and
confirmed the results of the voting. Representative from the
LDPR party Ivan Petrov refused to sign the final protocol,
thus, loosing the right to his dissenting opinion.
According to Goryachev, such non-recognition of the election
is conditioned by a “huge number of violations in drawing
the results of the voting by the inferior commissions, first
of all, by the local commissions at the polling stations.”
Goryachev also added that YABLOKO’s observers reported considerable
discrepancies between the prime protocols of the local commissions
and the final protocol of the Moscow Electoral Commission.
Goryachev also pointed out such grave violations as adding
of fraudulent bulletins into the ballot box, refusals to give
copies of voting protocols to the observers and ousting observers
from the oppositional parties from the polling stations.
Goryachev told that the Moscow Electoral Commission refused
to examine the complaints of the oppositional parties at its
meeting, sending some of the complaints to the subordinate
electoral commissions and the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
“According to our data, YABLOKO gathered 12% of the votes
at the election. Fraud bit almost two thirds of our votes,”
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin noted adding that this made
even a larger percentage compared to the State Duma election
in 2007. “Once again we were demonstrated that Russia not
only lacks fair elections, but it lacks elections at all,”
Mitrokhin said.
See also:
Elections to
the Moscow City Duma, 2009
Election
fraud at the Moscow City Duma elections. From the Live Journal
of Igor Yakovlev, Press Secretary of the YABLOKO party
Violations
at the Moscow City Duma elections. Press Release. October
12, 2009
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