The Supreme court of Russia refused to cancel the results of the September elections to the state Duma at the suit of the people’s freedom Party (PARNAS). It is reported by TASS on Thursday, March 2.
The court found no violations in the actions of Russia’s Central election Commission when counting the votes, said the judge.
That PARNAS filed an administrative claim against the CEC in the armed forces, was made on 10 Jan. It was noted that, in the opinion of the representatives of the party, the CEC, with the approval of the results of the election made a number of errors, in particular, had reviewed complaints received.
At the end of November 2016, the Supreme court refused to recognize the illegal decision of the CEC on the results of elections to the lower house of Parliament, at the suit of the party “Yabloko”. The organization demanded to cancel the results of voting from-for violations allegedly committed during its implementation.
Elections to the state Duma of the seventh convocation were held on 18 September. “United Russia” according to their results received 343 of the mandate of the Communist party — 42, LDPR — 39, “Fair Russia” — 23. In one place representatives of the party “Rodina” and “Civic platform”. PARNAS list received the support of slightly more than 0.7 percent of the votes to pass the barrier of five per cent, for single-mandate deputies from the party also failed to gain enough votes.