The liberal YABLOKO party filed a series of lawsuits demanding the invalidation of the results in December's State Duma elections in 170 out of Russia's 225 constituencies.
YABLOKO failed to gain the five percent of the vote required for parties to get party list representation in the Duma and had only three deputies elected from their constituencies.
The 78 lawsuits have been filed to regional courts and are based on the data compiled from comparing 14,065 voting protocols received from observers with the ones received from local election commissions. The copies of the protocols will be submitted to court together with the lawsuits. The largest number of discrepancies between official protocols and those submitted by observers - 215 - came from Perm region.
YABLOKO also plans to file a suit with the Supreme Court, protesting violations that occurred during the elections and vote-counting that led to the violations of citizens' constitutional right to free elections.
See also:
State Duma elections 2003
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Kommersant, March 11, 2004
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