"My son is growing, I don't care"

The Petersburger disputes the results of the governor's elections in court

“We have practically no comments and complaints about the past elections of the governor of St. Petersburg,” the chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova, the chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation, reported the other day and received gratitude from him. Unlike the President of Russia, not all residents of the Northern capital agree with the statement of the head of the Central Election Commission.

This fall, the city on the Neva became the leader in the trials of the cancellation of the results of the municipal elections. According to the New GIK, by the end of October, according to the results of the municipal campaign in St. Petersburg, 220 claims were received in the courts, which is 77% of the total number of similar claims for the country. “These are unprecedented numbers, this has never been to any municipal campaign in Russia,” said the CEC member Yevgeny Shevchenko, who was present at the final meeting of the St. Petersburg Horizolcoma on October 24.

However, not only the election of deputies, but also the mayor, according to many Petersburgers, were not without falsifications. One of the disagreements with the results of the governor's race - Mikhail Fedorov - appealed to the Kirov District Court in early October, demanding to cancel the voting results in the elections of the governor of St. Petersburg and conduct a re -counting of votes.

According to the Novye Fedorov, September 8, on a single voting day, he came to the polling station No. 623, received the ballot, but did not find a worthy contender for the post of head of the city in the list of candidates and went home, taking an unused document with him.

“However, when summing up the voting results, according to the PEC protocol, the number of issued ballots coincided with the number of extracted from the boxes: in both cases - 499,” says the plaintiff.

- Although at least one bulletin is in my arms. There are no lost ballots, according to official reports. This indicates at least an incorrect counting of votes, if not about the direct falsification of voting results.

“It is interesting that in the presidential election in 2018, the same voter in the same site, not finding the trust of candidates, also took a clean ballot with him,” said the coordinator of the Public Organization “Observers of St. Petersburg”, Kozhmirmir Vranks. - Despite this, the number of issued and counted ballots coincided then. Thus, we are already talking about systemic violations in the vote count and turn the elections into a fiction that has nothing to do with the real will of people.

Last year, in a similar case, the court decided that Mikhail Fedorov could not dispute the voting results. Since he did not fill and did not lower the ballot into the box, it means that he did not take part in the elections. On October 16, considering a new lawsuit from the same plaintiff, the Kirovsky District Court granted the petition of the horiz being and the prosecutor's office to terminate the trial.

“I was refused the same basis as before: I did not vote for any of the candidates, therefore - I am not a voter and, accordingly, I can’t dispute the election results,” Mikhail explains.

On October 25, Fedorov appealed the decision of the district court in a higher instance.

“There are legal grounds for appeal,” the plaintiff is convinced. - I am a voter regardless of my act. I came to the site, took the ballot, and I can dispose of it as I think it is necessary.

I firmly intend to prove my right to challenge the voting results. If the city court also refuses the lawsuit, then I will reach the Constitutional Court with the question: who is considered the voter? All residents of the city entered in lists or only those who voted for the candidates registered by the authorities?

Fedorov’s actions, he said, is not a whim, but a conscious position. Changes in public and political life in Russia since 2000 are categorically not satisfied with him, he has been assigning all responsibility for them:

- Without a regular change in power in the elections, degradation, usurpation and the collapse of the fundamental institutions of society are undergoing. I live here, my son is growing, I don’t care, ”Michael sums up.

The date of consideration of the appeal in the City Court has not yet been set.