The parliamentary electoral campaign is gradually entering the final phase: in the mass-media the electorate is actively hunted for. Electoral committees are preparing for the elections, which are to take place on December, 4.
According to the statement made by the secretary of the Central Electoral Committee of Russia Nikolay Konkin, all regions of Russia have received equal funding for the electoral preparations. «We don't distinguish between the regions of the Russian Federation situated in Central Russia, Ural, Siberia and the North Caucasus», he said. However, according to the official, for the sake of safety of the NCFD polling districtst have been allocated additional funds for video cameras and metal detectors. Nikolay Konkin has found it difficult to say how much law enforcement officers would secure order in polling districts of the North Caucasus.
He has also said that all the law enforcement officers, sent in NCFD for the period of the elections, will have an opportunity to vote. «In those republics where special security measures are required police officers from other regions are allocated. And we have to organize voting process for this category of citizens as well. If they were unable to obtain special papers they will be able to write personal requests and be listed with other voters of the region. Local stations will have to pass this information to the regions of their origin, to ensure the principle ‘one person-one vote’», he said
Besides, simultaneously with the Duma elections the inhabitants of Ingushetia are to elect the deputies in National assembly of the republic. The official has said that the Central Election Committee of Russia has supported the decision of the republican Central Electoral Committee to refuse to register the list of the Yabloko party for the republican parliamentary elections.
«On November, 8t at the session of the Central Electoral сommittee has been made the decision to refusal to honor a claim of political party "Yabloko" regarding the refusal to register the list of the party for the republican parliamentary elections, thus supporting the decision of the republican Electoral committee, on the ground of the insufficient quantity of signatures presented by the party», - the secretary of the Central Electoral Committee said
11/11/2011
