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Deputy Chairman of the liberal YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin announced that
early voting in local parliamentary elections in Krasnoyarsk Region was
subjected to violations of the electoral law, Interfax news agency reported Friday.
Mitrokhin said that local TV had shown early voting in local elections in
Krasnoyarsk schools under the supervision of school headmasters. Quoted by
the agency, he said that 8,000 people had voted in the city, literally watched over by the
headmasters.
The YABLOKO spokesman was confident that 8,000 people, or 3 percent of the
electorate, had been forced to vote in favour of the "For Krasnoyarsk"
alliance currently in charge of the city authorities. He also said that his party and the Union
of Right-Wing Forces had been unable to publish adverts in some media.
"We have substantiated data that similar violations were committed in other
regions of Russia," Mitrokhin was quoted by Interfax as saying. He is ready
to present the evidence of violations in Krasnoyarsk to the Central Electoral Commission.
A number of regions are combining local elections with those for the president, and early
voting has already taken place in a number of areas, both in Russia and abroad.
Mosnews reported yesterday that YABLOKO had already addressed the courts
demanding the cancellation of the federal parliamentary election results in
over half the country's constituencies owing to violations in the work of local election
commissions.
See also:
Regional elections 2004
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