| A Krasnoyarsk court Tuesday rejected a complaint from
the liberal Yabloko party to invalidate the result of the Duma vote in
three Krasnoyarsk single-mandate districts.
Yabloko claimed that the results of the districts 47, 48 and 50 published
by the Central Elections Commission differed from the results obtained
by an alternative tally of the protocols Yabloko observers took from the
polling stations.
The court promised to explain its decision in the near future.
Yabloko deputy chairman Sergei
Mitrokhin said Yabloko would appeal the decision at the Supreme Court.
Mitrokhin said the Krasnoyarsk complaint was the first to be heard out
of 45 lawsuits the party has filed in various regions. He said an alternative
tally of 14,000 out of about 100,000 ballot protocols nationally had revealed
"big discrepancies between the official numbers and the results we
obtained."
But he said this was not enough to determine whether Yabloko had gained
enough votes to enter the Duma.
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