Primorye: the beaten -offer canceled the results of the election of the governor of the region

On September 20, the election commission of the Primorsky Territory canceled the results of the elections of the second round of the head of the region, 12 of the 13 members of the commission voted for this decision.

“The results of the elections cannot be recognized as reliable. The regional election commission takes into account that significant voting violations can serve as the basis for recognizing the elections illegal,” Tatyana Gladkikh, the words of the chairman of the regional lawsuit, conveyed the question of voting.

The Communist Party candidate Andrei Ishchenko challenges in court the cancellation of the results of the second round of the election of the Governor of Primorye, the portal of the MBH Media said on its Twitter .

❗️ Choosing Commission of the Primorsky Territory voted to cancel the results of the Governor’s elections https://t.co/ctzssusb6pl

- MBH Media (@mbkhmedia) September 20, 2018

According to IA PrimaMedia, the new elections of the Governor of the Territory will be held on December 16.

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On September 19, the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova proposed recognizing the results of the election of the Governor of Primorsky Territory invalid. She emphasized that in the CEC they are shocked by numerous violations. She promised the investigation "without regard to the personality of the organizers of falsifications." The secretary of the election commission of the region, Natalya Kamaeva, supported the position of the CEC on the need to cancel the election results in Primorye.

According to RBC, the acting governor of the Primorsky Territory Andrei Tarasenko will not retain his post until the head of the region, his speech will happen after the decision of the regional election commission cancel the results of the past elections.

The second round of elections of the Governor of the Primorsky Territory took place on September 16. They were leaded by the Candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Andrei Ishchenko, however, when the counting of the votes was already completed, the acting Governor of United Russia Andrei Tarasenko came forward with a slight margin. Observers drew attention to unusual results in a number of sites, where supposedly 100 percent of voters voted for Tarasenko. Ishchenko announced falsifications and called for protests to which thousands of residents of Vladivostok came to.