The Central Election Commission of Russia on Friday confirmed the verdict by unanimous decision of the Novosibirsk regional election commission, which refused to register Parnas party in the elections to the regional legislative assembly, scheduled for September 13 this year. Recall, the party went to the polls in the so-called “democratic coalition”, which included a number of non-system candidates from liberal parties, including unregistered “Progress Party” Alexei Navalny.
In addition to the Novosibirsk region, Parnas wanted to fight of the parliamentary seats in the Magadan, Kostroma and Kaluga regions. But in the end refused to let representatives of the coalition in the elections on party lists in all four regions.
The failures of the regional election commissions were perceived non-system opposition with great surprise, since a few weeks ago to hold in the country fair, and competitive elections loudly calling in the presidential administration. It later emerged that this appeal is likely, for the future of the counting of votes on the basis of the people’s will. As for admission to the most selective race, the decision on this matter, apparently, initially decided to be left to the regional authorities.
In addition to Parnassus, the elections in the Novosibirsk region were not allowed six parties. However, the regional election committee to appeal the decision to a higher CEC with Parnassus ventured only “Communists of Russia”. The fact that the two political forces will not be able to prove their case, it was clear even before – after a meeting of a working group under the CEC. Having considered the complaint Parnassus, experts from the FSB came to the conclusion that the party even more unreliable voter signatures than previously identified Novosibirsk oblizbirkom.
The involvement of experts from intelligence services shocked the lawyer Parnas Ivan Zhdanov. He said that the results of retesting representatives of the party was not given any documents, including the final protocol itself. CEC head Vladimir Churov said that by law has the right to use the electoral commission on elections and the Interior Ministry, and the FSB (it is clear that in this case it comes to handwriting experts).
But it is not in them. Following the discussion, the CEC has become clear that even without the participation of these structures in election commissions there are dozens of ways to invalidate the original signature, but collected, so to speak, with small blots and other seemingly does not play a significant role inaccuracies.
The power of the bureaucratic mechanism demonstrated at the meeting of the CEC member Sergei Danilenko. ‘Attention, he presented a fragment of the signature sheet in support of the Parnassus, filled with some kind of a citizen by the name of Bushul. All words were put there by the hand almost in block letters so that doubt should not legible handwriting, like, be none. But Danilenko said that the letter “w” in this case is easily confused with “g”, and, therefore, such a signature is already automatically be rejected by the Commission.
Sami representatives Parnassus and did not seek to put forward his defense which -or rational arguments, but, as noted in the CEC, the limited “political slogans”. Although, according to the lawyer Parnas Ivan Zhdanov, trying to prove anything to the electoral commission – it rotten. “We can not give here all the 11 thousand people who put our signatures. Petitions simply flipping – or not to accept. That’s the way it was” – complained about the work of the electoral commission Zhdanov. At the same time, according to his calculations, 20% of wrong conclusions in the identification of invalid signatures were linked to “errors in the certificate FMS”, which uses outdated database.
The leader Parnas Mikhail Kasyanov and did said that “the elections – it is not training people in calligraphy, “and therefore should not find fault with the signatures. According to him, the main thing that no signature was not false. “And some blots, especially gaffe committed by the authorities, can not be interpreted as a claim to our electoral association,” – said the oppositionist.
Come to the meeting of the CEC Navalny I decided never to go into the legal subtleties. “Everyone knows that the election – this is a game with marked cards gamblers, but we still went for them,” – said the opposition leader, and then called upon the members of the CEC stop doing “legal casuistry” and just go and let Parnassus vote.
However, the CEC stated that it is impossible, even if the decision of the Novosibirsk regional election committee to refuse the registration will be canceled Parnassus. “You deliberately applying, the settlement of which will not lead to your registration?” – Asked the representatives directly Parnassus CEC member Alla Alexeyeva. Other members of the Commission explained that this party is simply not enough signatures for registration, even if previously recognized invalid signature “will be returned.” “And in general, let’s meet this complaint, just to show the stupidity of the complainants themselves,” – Alexeyev offered.
But in response to a remark heard Churov, who expressed confidence that “the complaint was not originally designed for the registration of the party list “. He suspected that he came to the CEC, Parnassus consciously trying to lead participants in the discussion “from the legal to the political plane,” or more simply, to find another reason to make a “public relations.” The Parnas also written off all the blame on the “bureaucratic mechanisms”, using that power legitimately can not be spent on any election objectionable party.
Officials from the CEC trailer, meanwhile, to careless lawyer indications Zhdanov. He insolently admitted that he could run a series of errors of the electoral headquarters of the operators themselves, who “interrupted” the data, not to mention the party identified the so-called “toxic raisers’ signatures. “You see, on the one hand, a certain number of mistakes were made inspection bodies, but the same pattern, and on the opposite side. And once made a mistake, the whole array of signatures should be annulled. It is symmetrical,” – said Churov.
However, he immediately made it clear that Parnas do not worry – the elections to the Duma in 2016 the party admit without collecting signatures by a single mandate in the Legislative Assembly of the Yaroslavl region, which a few years ago won the late Boris Nemtsov.
Elena Zemskova
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