In Volgograd Region, CPRF members file five complaints about election violations

Members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) have filed five complaints about electoral violations in Volgograd, including illegal voting, obstructing observers to participate in the visiting voting, etc. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Katerina Pechenova, the head of the press service of the regional branch of the CPRF.

According to Katerina Pechenova, Andrei Annenko, a candidate for deputy at the Regional Duma at the Soviet electoral precinct No. 17, recorded the fact of illegal voting at the electoral precinct No. 813.

Katerina Pechenova has also reported that they also received complaints from observers from the electoral precinct No. 816 in the Soviet District. "In particular, we are talking about the fact that the observers were provided with places in the area where they were not able to visually monitor the actions of members of the precinct election commission (PEC)," Katerina Pechenova has reported. And she continued: "Besides, the observers recorded the case when PEC members hindered the observers to participate in the travel (visiting) voting."

The complaints were also received from the electoral precinct No. 2405 located in the Lenin District. "The same ballot box No. 1 for visiting voting was twice removed from the electoral precinct," stated the head of the press service of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the CPRF. And she has added: "The observers from the CPRF have filed complaints to the PECs."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.