Shein: The hunger strike is stopped, we have reached the goal

Astrakhan mayor candidate Oleg Shein stops a hunger strike, which he held 40 days. He stated this at a briefing in Astrakhan. "A hunger strike is an instrument. The goal was - to overturn the false elections in Astrakhan. Back on Friday, we heard an unprecedented statement by the Central Election Commission that in Astrakhan the law was violated at 129 polling stations of 203 - 70 percent. Vladimir Lukin, the Ombudsman of Russia, said that we would inevitably win the court. We will win the court in the Strasbourg. The “Independent Gazeta” also wrote about this, which has quite good contacts with the authorities.

Earlier, Shein, who announced on Saturday about leaving the hunger strike, canceled this decision in connection with the arrests of his supporters. “Back on Saturday, I said that the hunger strike was ending. But the reactionaries who were defeated at the federal level decided to take revenge on the local,” Shein explains on his blog. “Starts began on Friday, and arrests to intimidate people. We were forced to extend the hunger strike. Today, forty people announced the participation in the hunger strike. The situation was stripped. Instead of arrests. The fines arrested for a long time were released only in three people, the courts did not manage to make a decision in a timely manner, but their arrest expires tomorrow (on Tuesday. - Ed.). "

The repression campaign was carried out by order of the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin, Shein said in an interview with OpenSpace.ru. According to him, the decision to untie the repression was made on Friday evening at a closed meeting with Volodin, who "decided to recoup". According to the opposition, Volodin instructed the envoy to the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov to "organize mass arrests" in Astrakhan.

“They, apparently, think that you can scare people with arrests,” Shein writes . “They judge by themselves and are probably afraid to get to prison. But no one is afraid of anything. I have no right to stop the hunger strike until they release my comrades and stop the police and Bandi arbitrariness in the city.”

Shein has held a hunger strike since March 16, demanding the abolition of the mayor’s elections, which, according to the official version, won Unitedos Mikhail Stolyarov. By Saturday, five people were kept along with Shein.

On Friday, Shein welcomed the statement of the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov, who admitted that in Astrakhan the violations in the elections were in 128 plots out of 203. "The local prosecutor’s office, who had previously revealed violations in 5 sites, in the dirty shameful puddle,” Shein wrote in his blog. At the same time, Churov denies the presence of falsifications, he emphasizes that we are talking about procedural violations. “The word“ falsification ”means“ falsification ”. That is, it is a correspondence of protocols, when at first they honestly counted, and then converted to TIK (territorial election commission),” Shein explained. “In Astrakhan, they simply rewritten. We simply did not show marks in ballots. This made it possible to draw any results, and there were no protocols to sign it. need to".

At a press conference on Friday, Churov demonstrated numerous videos from the Astrakhan sites in which observers were driven away, did not allow to watch marks in ballots, removed members of the commissions with a decisive voice.

“Now I’m sure that the court will decide on the cancellation of the elections in Astrakhan,” Shein wrote on Friday. “Moreover, I am convinced that it will be a Russian court, and not the ECHR. Otherwise, we will look ridiculous as the country, and our justice is completely discredited - how to recognize the elections as legal if the calculation procedure has been violated, according to the CEC, in 70% of cases?” Videos from all polling stations of the city have been attached to Shein’s lawsuit. The Socialist-Revolutionaries for more than a month sought from Rostelecom access to the notes of the webcam, then a joint viewing in Moscow with the participation of Churov was organized. The deputy chairman of the CEC Uneneros Leonid Ivlev stated that signs of installation were discovered in the roller roller coins. United Russia also called into question the fact of a hunger strike.

"The crisis in Astrakhan will help hold the elections more honestly in the country," says Shein. He welcomed Churov’s statement that webcams showed their effectiveness in the elections, and the promise of the head of the CEC to expand the use of the Coobas. Shein thanked everyone who supports his struggle.