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The Democrats dropped Kaluga
Democratic Coalition (goes to the polls under the auspices of the party Parnas) refuses to participate in elections to the Legislative Assembly of Kaluga area and will not take the election commission voter signatures in support of their nomination. This is stated in the statement on the website Parnassus signed coalition leaders Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Milov. “We are faced with an unprecedented special operation to introduce our headquarters organized group of manufacturers of counterfeit signatures – similar to the identification of” toxic “signature collectors in Novosibirsk”, – explained the Democrats.
During the campaign democratic coalition gathered more than 6300 signatures support of his nomination for election to the Legislative Assembly of Kaluga, although it was quite 4000, the coalition said in a statement. But in 2500 the suspicious signatures have been rejected by the candidates and employees Staff Parnassus, to the document.
The decision to withdraw from the election coalition leaders explain the concern about the safety of supporters, “We do not want to give the authorities a chance to use them for this provocation criminal prosecution. ” This is possible, say the authors of the statement, referring to the pressure and threats, allegedly received signature collectors and members of staff. Previously, on suspicion of attempting to access the personal data of voters, was arrested two months the head of the coalition headquarters Kostroma Andrei Pivovarov, the TFR in the Novosibirsk region in the beginning of the test against the leaders of the Democratic headquarters on suspicion of fraud.
On Friday working group Kaluga region electoral commission recommended to refuse to register a list of other opposition party – “Civil Initiative”, which is headed by former economy minister Andrei Nechayev. This on Twitter head of the electoral headquarters of the organization Maxim Katz. Earlier, the party referred to the Electoral Commission 4402 signatures in support of his nomination, but in 1246 were rejected by the working group on the basis of the data base of the Federal Migration Service, the message says Katz. Katz also states that the party representatives to a meeting of the working group was not allowed, the claims group to the signatures they had heard through the door in front of the police who were on duty and could not argue.
Are connected with the Kaluga election commission at the time of publication of the article RBC failed.
Betting on single-mandate
By refusing to participate in elections in the Kaluga region on the party list, the coalition will continue to support in the elections in the Kaluga region of its two single-mandate candidates Igor Kuznik and Mikhail Sazonov, said in a statement.
Signatures for Kuznik collected in Maloyaroslavets, were filed with the election commission on Friday, said the head of RBC his staff Alexander Larenkov. “Only in 1741 was collected signature of them, we have selected the ideal 1309″ – says Larenkov, expects that the decision whether to register the candidate of the electoral commission announced on Tuesday-Wednesday. Fears that now after the removal of the list of targets for the government will be just two single-mandate candidate, he does not have: “We are acting strictly within the law, although illusions about the simplicity of the campaign, we also do not experience».
In the Novosibirsk region Parnas has already been registered for single-mandate elections – the leader of the list of Yegor Savina, which will run for the district in Berdsk.
System History
Earlier, the electoral commissions refused to register lists of Parnassus Magadan and Novosibirsk regions. In addition, local election commissions refused to allow the party in the elections to municipal councils Izhevsk and Perm.
According to the leader of the party list Kostroma Ilya Yashin, the removal of Parnassus with elections in three of the four regions where the Democrats have decided to participate in the race, – “History of the system.” “This general picture related to the elimination of the democratic opposition and the election of the intention of the authorities to fight off any desire to take part in election campaigns in the future, for example in the elections to the Duma in 2016. We show that not only are not going to allow elections, but they will be prosecuted for trying to participate in the elections even before the opening of criminal cases, “- said RBC policy.
Yashin did not want to predict the chances of registration in the list of Parnassus Kostroma region, but admitted that the mood in his team anxious and headquarters beheaded. At the same time he hopes that “lawyers are spaced collected [in the region] signature.” Documents in the local electoral commission passed on the eve of his team.
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