Central Election Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov, right, and his deputy Stanislav Vavilov, left
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Central Election Commission Counted Parliament Election Costs
Russia’s Central Election Commission submitted to the State Duma yesterday the final accounting report on December 2 elections to the lower house of the country’s parliament. The violations weren’t material, the election authority concluded.
“The costs were generally of target nature and confirmed by the primary documents,” says the report of the RF Central Election Commission. Seven parties will have to pay 1.1 billion rubles during a year for the TV air, specified Stanislav Vavilov, deputy chairman of the Commission.
Some 4.2 billion rubles went to fund the election commissions and the actions related to holding the State Duma elections. The better part of that money was spent for commissions; an ordinary member was paid from 3,000 rubles to 5,000 rubles for all 30 days of the campaign, including the days of voting and the vote count.
The report says 828,000 members of the commissions got 2.1 billion rubles overall. The salary grew 1.4 fold vs the previous elections, and 109 million rubles was saved for the federal budget (800 million rubles in 2003).
The social workers, who are generally in need, are usually attracted to the district commissions, said Andrei Klychkov, the Central Election Commission member from Communist Party. “It is easier to use the stick rather than the carrot policy against them. Under the threat of dismissal from office, it is easier to make them overlook violations and directly rig the election results,” Klychkov explained.
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All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 12, 2008
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