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Communist Party prepares suit against alleged elections violations
MOSCOW. Dec 7 (Interfax) - The Communist Party of the Russian
Federation (KPRF) is preparing a petition to the Central Elections
Commission seeking to recognize the State Duma elections as invalid, and
will also hold a national protest action on this point, First Deputy
KPRF Chairman Ivan Melnikov said.
"The KPRF does not recognize the results of the elections. The KPRF
legal department is preparing a petition to the Central Elections
Commission and the Supreme Court requesting that the election results be
recognized as invalid. An All Russian protest action against all blatant
violations of the elections will be held on December 22," Melnikov said
at a press conference in the Interfax Central Office on Friday.
The KPRF Central Committee Presidium has recognized that the
December 2 elections were dishonest, non-free, and so the KPRF does not
recognize the election results," Melnikov said.
"We have noted that falsification of elections took place
throughout the whole Russian territory, and there were zones of total
violations of the existing legislation," Melnikov said.
These zones include Chechnya, Ingushetia, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan,
Dagestan, Mordovia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Kemerovo region, Melnikov
said.
Following a parallel vote count conducted by KPRF for the evening
of December 6, 40% of protocols from party observers were examined,
Melnikov said. "According to these protocols, the KPRF result is 13.2%,
and United Russia result is 58.7%," Melnikov said.
"The elections revealed that prisons, barracks and psychiatric
hospitals produce the best voting results for United Russia, while
universities, towns with research centers and young people cast their
ballots for KPRF," Melnikov said.
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