Statement by a resident of Ingushetia confirming non-participation in the December 2, 2007, parliamentary elections
Photo: Musa Muradov
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Doubt Cast on Duma Elections
Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov sent a 17-page statement to the Prosecutor General's Office yesterday disputing the State Duma election results in Mordovia. Zyuganov uses the reports of his party's election observers to indicate that the results there were falsified in favor of the United Russia Party. The Communist Party legal department promises that the statement will not be the last one it sends.
The website ingushetia.ru has begun a campaign called “I Didn't Vote” in reference to the December 2 parliamentary elections in Russia. Its organizers claim that 54 percent of voters participated in it. Site owner Magomed Evloev told Kommersant that a truckload of 90,000 statements from Ingushetian voters confirming that they did not take part in the election was dispatched to Moscow. Five hundred volunteers collected the statements, which will also be present to the prosecutor's office. Evloev added that the action may continue after that step is completed.
The authorities claim that 98 percent of Ingushetian voters went to the polls. Chairman of the Ingushetian elections commission Musa Evloev (no relation to the website owner) defended the vote results and noted that no complaints had been filed with the commission. Duma member from Ingushetia Bilan Khamichev stated that “The residents of our republic are extremely interested in receiving a Duma tribunal and could not ignore the opportunity to delegate a representative to the lower house of parliament.”
Musa Muradov, Viktor Hamraev
All the Article in Russian as of Jan. 16, 2008
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