The opposition will not demand the cancellation of the election results in the 13th district

State Duma deputy from the LDPR Anton Ishchenko does not expect to sue for his party from Saratov City Duma deputy Vladislav Malyshev a seat in the Saratov representative body in the 13th electoral district. Last week, the court found guilty four Saratov residents who threw in ballots for Mr. Ishchenko’s opponent in the elections to the Saratov City Duma on March 13.

The Leninsky District Court of Saratov found guilty four citizens who, on March 13, threw in 20 ballots for United Russia candidate Vladislav Malyshev during the election of deputies to the Saratov City Duma.

The press service of the regional Investigative Committee reported that the investigation and the court established the involvement of four young people in election fraud. The violation was detected at polling station No. 220. Those responsible were sentenced to fines in the amount of 30 thousand rubles.

Let us remind you that according to the results of voting in the district, Mr. Malyshev received 41.82% of the votes. His rivals were the head of the regional branch of A Just Russia, Alexey Poleshchikov (21% of the votes), the coordinator of the regional branch of the LDPR, Anton Ishchenko (13.29%), and four self-nominated candidates.

At the same time, Mr. Ishchenko does not expect to be able to “defend” the deputy mandate for the party. “Firstly, it is necessary to prove that in 25% of polling stations the votes were falsified. Considering that we have gone through all the judicial procedures, we see that it is still very difficult to achieve anything,” the Liberal Democrat said at a press conference yesterday.

It is worth noting that in October another case of violations came to court in the same district. The Leninsky District Court found Natalia Ulyanicheva, a member of the precinct election commission, guilty of falsifying election documents and voting results. When counting votes at the same 220th polling station in the 13th district, it turned out that the number of ballots found in the ballot boxes was greater than the number of ballots issued by the PEC on election day. Mrs. Ulyanycheva personally entered into the voter list deliberately false information about the issuance of ballot papers to 57 citizens indicated in the voter list, who did not actually take part in voting.

It was not possible to find out whether right-wing Russian Aleksey Poleshchikov would demand the cancellation of the election results in the constituency; his mobile phone did not answer during the day.

Mr. Malyshev suggests that the stuffing of ballots in his favor is a provocation on the part of his rivals. “I have nothing to do with the convicts. During those elections, not only my headquarters worked, but also others, and I don’t know which of them these people belong to. Our election campaign was based on the idea of fair elections, the absence of black PR and any illegal actions,” he said.

Sergei Petunin, Asya Safiullina

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