Navalny supporters promised to restore the election in Kostroma – RBC

The opposition leader Alexei Navalny

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The Central Election Commission received a complaint from Parnassus refusal Kostroma Electoral Commission to register the list, said RBC’s press secretary Anna Fomenkova Commission. By law, the appeal must be considered within ten days. Perhaps a working group of the election commission will consider it as early as Friday, August 14, suggested in an interview with RBC leader Ilya Yashin Kostroma list.

As told RBC source in the party Mikhail Kasyanov officials persons with whom contact opposition, informed them that it makes sense to challenge the refusal to register it Kostroma electoral commission. Parnassus , under whose auspices the elections exposed representatives of the Democratic coalition Alexei Navalny and Kasyanov, has promised that their complaint will be thoroughly and exhaustively studied in CEC , says spokesman RBC.

Source RBC, close to the leadership of “United Russia” confirms that it is likely that it Kostroma list will eventually be restored. In the Kostroma region is not enough for the party registration only a few dozen signatures, indicates the cause of the possible solutions interlocutor RBC.

List, led by Yashin is not enough to restore the election of 75 signatures of voters. Kostroma electoral commission after checking all received 3009 signatures from democrats refused to count 352 signatures – this is the lowest defect rate (11.6%) in comparison with other regions, where they tried to supporters Navalny run.

On Monday the issue of widespread withdrawal of candidates from the democratic coalition in the elections raised the members of the Presidential Council on Human Rights during a meeting with the first , deputy head of Administration Vyacheslav Volodin. That in response to complaints HRC stated that the position of the party in power is so strong that the federal government is not interested in electoral fraud, told RBC Topoleva – Soldunova . In her words, the official said, apparently collected non-system Opposition signature really poor quality, but does not rule out the possibility of their admission to the election on the basis of their complaints to the CEC.

So far, the candidates of the Democratic coalition failed to win the right to vote in any of the Th tyreh regions where they fielded their candidates – Novosibirsk, Kostroma, Kaluga and Magadan regions. coalition have tried to appeal the decision of the Novosibirsk election commission . August 7 the Central Election Commission considered the complaint and refused registration on the basis of signature verification by experts of the FSB. Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov , having familiarized with the complaint, said the mistakes made, and the electoral commission, and the opposition, but sided with the regional commission.

The collection of signatures turned in Kostroma for Parnassus a criminal case. July 27, the eve of the filing of voters’ signatures, was arrested the head of the Kostroma Staff Andrei Pivovarov. He was detained at the police station, where he tried to personally using the familiar police check the validity of signatures collected. Pivovarov is charged with unauthorized access to the information, incitement and abuse of office. On Wednesday, a meeting of the Court of Appeal decision on the protection of the measure of restraint. In support of Pivovarova on Tuesday spoke of human rights organizations I “Memorial”, calling it politically motivated prosecution.