The results of Russia's unified voting day on the second Sunday of September and various aspects of the election in Moscow have been discussed today at several round tables. VK observed one such round table dedicated to the public election observation.
Co-chair of the Working Group of the Public Chamber for public monitoring of the electoral process Georgy Fyodorov, Director of the Russian Foundation for free elections and chairman of the Coordination Council of NGOs for the protection of the electoral rights of citizens Igor Bogdanov, director of the Russian Public Institute of Electoral Law and member of the Moscow Public Chamber Alexander Ignatov and member of the Standing Committee on the Rights of the Election of the Presidential Council for Civic Society Institutions and Human Rights Leonid Polyakov discussed the success of public monitoring at yesterday's elections.
Igor Bogdanov at the beginning of the meeting stated that the elections were fair and transparent and announced statistics that 25 regional observation points received information about 1317 alleged violations in 41 regions of Russia.
Alexander Ignatov spoke about the nomination of candidates in Moscow and the Moscow region According to him this time there was less dissatisfaction with the municipal filter. The very process of the nomination took place peacefully and there were fewer rejections of candidates' registration.
Leonid Polyakov drew attention to the fact that the participation of public election observers should be considered in the context of civil liberties in the country. Although, according to the polls, political rights in the country concern no more than 5-6 % of the population, the consistency and quality of the observers, according to the expert, indicate the development of civic society, and this has a positive effect on the legitimacy of all political systems. "Our democracy is only 20 years old, and the main problem of young democracies is legitimization, " he said.
