It's not over until all the ballots have been counted
Which action is most unlikely? Counting votes that were not cast or the Communist Party demanding a fair election? (Are my Cold War biases showing?)Russian communist hunger strike over 'rigged' far east vote
An opposition candidate has gone on hunger strike in the far east of Russia after suddenly losing a key regional election that he was poised to win.
With more than 95% of votes counted in the Primorye region, the communist Andrei Ishchenko had a five-point lead. But during the night his pro-Putin rival Andrei Tarasenko overtook him.
On Facebook Mr Ishchenko urged his supporters to protest in Vladivostok, saying "our votes are being stolen".
Protest in Vladivostok
The communists are taking legal action.
Mr Ishchenko said the party's legal service was preparing formal protests over the results in several districts: Artyom, Ussuriysk, Nakhodka, and Sovietskiy, which is in Vladivostok.
"We won't go away until we see fair election results!" he said.
Russia's best-known opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, also called for a mass protest in Vladivostok…
In a tweet, fair elections campaign group Golos reported that Mr Tarasenko, the current acting governor, had suddenly surged ahead when more than 99% of votes had been counted in Primorye.
The vote was a second-round runoff, because no candidate had passed the 50% threshold in the first round…
Communist officials accused the commission there of falsifying ballot papers and delaying issuing the results.
They said the party's observers in the building had refused to leave, at which point firefighters turned up, saying they had to evacuate people because of a suspected fire on the third floor.
BBC Russian reports that similar "emergencies" happened at some other vote-counting centres.
Police cordoned off the election commission building in Ussuriysk. Politicians were then refused entry.
Communist observers declared a hunger strike in the commission building in Artyom, after officials refused to release the results there.
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Labels: elections, politics, Russia
posted by Ken Wedding @ 5:30 AM
1 Comments:
Too much publicity?
The government seems to have second thoughts about a corrupt election.
Russia cancels local election results in Far East after protests
SEE: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/russia-cancels-local-election-results-east-protests-180920080730830.html
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