Chechen Republic Election Commission has decided to abandon the use of surveillance cameras at polling stations during the elections on 18 September. It is reported by TASS with reference to the Chairman of the Election Commission of the Chechen Umar Baikhanov.
According to the agency, the decision was taken after a meeting with the candidates and representatives of the parties participating in elections. According to the chairman of the election commission, the local party “will exhibit its observers to almost every polling station commissions».
The reasons for such an initiative Baikhanov called financial costs.
«Equipment precincts surveillance tools required financial costs, and we do not see them as necessary, in our region is sufficiently developed institution of observers, “- Baikhanov said
also, the agency noted that the participants in the election race in Chechnya signed an agreement” For fair elections “. under the provisions of which they undertake to ensure that the electoral activities were free and fair.
Earlier in the Kremlin night meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin with the interim head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. The sides discussed the socio-economic situation in the region.
The head of the Chechen Republic will be elected on September 18 in Uniform day of voting. The term of office expired on Ramzan Kadyrov in early April. Putin appointed him as acting head of the region. In early August, the Chechen Electoral Commission unanimously adopted the decision on registration of Kadyrov in the elections of the republic.
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