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09:19 GMT, Dec 07, 2007
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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