The head of the commission on electoral rights of the Council President for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Ilya Shablinsky explained the changes in the electoral legislation.
He said the amendments to the legislation concerning the credentials of observers proposed by the Central Election Commission – is the result of a meeting of human rights defenders with the president, reports “Izvestia” word Shablinsky.
«Increased care and supervision of the electoral commissions increase the credibility of the elections, make them more legitimate and open»
«The last meeting of the president with the Human Rights Council on October 1 2015 played a role in the establishment of new rules for observers. We then asked to cancel the norm of the right of election commissions to remove observers. Provides examples of arbitrariness. Vladimir Putin quite briefly commented on this idea (say that “when removed several observers, it is generally good for nothing …”). Then I read his commission CEC: it was very general. But now something is cleared up. According to the amendments, it is important to note three key points, “- he said.
«Firstly, the novel, according to which the observers are now removed sites is possible only by court order, can be considered only positive, it is a step in the right direction. Let me remind you, we recommended to exclude this provision. However, this mechanism (complaints to the court on the day of voting and judicial decisions) will be implemented in practice – remains a mystery which we still have to solve, “- he said.
Shablinsky said that the practice of the Russian electoral process needs to continue to exclude the situation where the chairmen of district election commissions on various pretexts eliminate those who somehow could not stop their attempts to falsify the election results. It is imperative that the media could not be removed from the areas under false pretenses, he said.
«The second point. Amendment CEC stipulates that parties or candidates in single-mandate district can present only two observers at each polling station, only enshrines in law the current practice, even in some cases, leaving a gap. In reality, parties and candidates often send one observer. Sometimes this is enough, if the observer is really working, “- he said.
«I have heard that this norm – the answer to the abuse when the party sent to one site as five to seven observers. This would seem to be in the Moscow region, it was discussed in the report of the monitoring group. But I would not say that it has become a trend, “- he added.
«In principle, as the saying goes,” porridge butter will not spoil. ” Increased care and supervision of the electoral commissions increase the credibility of the elections, making them more open and legitimate, “- said Shablinsky.
«In the third place, it should be noted that the amendments are not without flaws. In particular, the point of pre-registration of observers greatly complicate control over the work of election commissions. It is precisely the spoon fly in the ointment, it was she who impede the process of election monitoring, as pre-registration of observers deprives them of maneuverability and binds to a specific site, “- he said.
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