Rostov candidate David Lynch

David Lynch is the hero of the election campaign in Rostov-on-Don

On the eve of the municipal elections on October 10, posters with the image of the famous American director David Lynch appeared on electoral cabins in Rostov-on-Don. The image of a cheerful director was in the leaflets depicting the dull, for the most part, the faces of candidates for the City Duma. The inscription on the poster of the A3 format read: "David Lynch is our candidate!" There were no other data, even typographic ones. But a good design and excellent quality of execution were caught in the eyes. The Lynch photo was posted on a fragment of the coat of arms of Rostov-on-Don.

Recall, David Lynch is a cult American film director, screenwriter and writer. The author of such paintings as "Twin Pixes" and "Blue velvet". The last full -length tape - the “Inner Empire” - was released in 2006. In his free time he is engaged in painting and photography.

The regional election commission said reporters that this was someone's stupid joke and promised to report what happened to law enforcement agencies. According to experts, the emergence of posters with the image of Lynch is, possibly, an attempt to revive the election campaign, which passed quite boring.

- "David Lynch - our candidate" is a wonderful leaflet. Perhaps its authors wanted to say that the elections in some cities and areas of our region are similar to American thrillers. And in this sense, they may not be mistaken, ”the chairman of the regional election commission Sergey Yusov said thoughtfully in the morning of October 11.

Indeed, it is quite similar to a thriller with a mystical subtext: the Investigative Committee for the Rostov Region has already opened three criminal cases on the facts of falsification of electoral documents in the elections to the Rostov City Duma of the fifth convocation. According to Galina Gagalaeva , senior assistant to the head of the regional investigative department of the SCP of the Russian Federation, cases were instituted by violations in one polling station of the Soviet district of the city and in two sections of the Voroshilovsky district:

- Based on the results of the inspections, the head of the Investigative Department in the Rostov Region Yuri Popov opened three criminal cases on the facts of falsification of electoral documents - Article 142 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In the Sovetsky district of Rostov, at the polling station No. 1739 before the start of the vote, during the recalculation of electoral documents, 300 ballots of 2,100 VICs were found with a handwritten mark on voting in favor of one of the candidates for deputies.

The investigation established that only members of precinct election commissions had access to selective documents. Data on illegal penetration into the premises of the PEC did not receive during the audit.

Members of the Rostov municipal election commission, representatives of the opposition parliamentary parties, announced numerous violations in past elections to local authorities and the use of an administrative resource. Representatives of the Communist Party, Fair Russia and the LDPR refused to sign the final protocol with the results of the elections on October 10.

According to the opposition? This time the unprecedented is registered on the Don - even in comparison with the 2009 election campaign - the number of violations. The most numerous and loud scandals are recorded directly in the capital of the Southern Federal District. What is worth, for example, the story of the cancellation of the registration of a candidate from "Fair Russia" Sergei Bashtyrev. The courts - at first district, and then the regional, accused him of inciting social rheast only because in his election leaflet he criticized the reform of health and education systems.

Based on the results of the vote in the city Duma of Rostov, from 35 seats 34 were taken by members of United Russia, only one place went to the communist. There have never been such results, even under the previous governor Vladimir Chube.

- United Russia not only showed very convincing, I would even say a victory atypical, by the standards of all of Russia. In very many districts, the party won well with a very large margin, ”commented on the results of the elections in Rostov-on-Don of the pre-Ubolisbirkoma Sergey Yusov .

In connection with numerous, gross violations in the past elections, opposition representatives intend to create a public control organization. Sergei Kosinov, head of the apparatus of the Bureau of the Council of the Regional Branch of "Fair Russia" in the Rostov Region stated that if the courts did not take into account the collected evidence of forgery during the vote, then the opposition parties will have nothing else but the creation of the People’s Duma of Rostov.