CEC rejects “speculations” about the formation of the PEC – Kommersant

At a meeting on July 17, CEC chairman Ella Pamfilova reported on the results of the formation of new compositions of precinct election commissions (PECs) in order to stop “all speculation” about not admitting representatives of some parties there. According to her, due to the expiration of the five-year term of office, 89.2 thousand PECs (or 95.2% of their total number) are subject to reappointment, while 81.5 thousand of them have been formed so far.

Recall that earlier the Communist Party of the Russian Federation complained that in several regions at once (in particular, in the Altai, Krasnodar and Primorsky Territories, as well as in the Amur and Omsk Regions), its candidates were not admitted en masse to the new compositions of the PEC due to “rating voting ”, although by law parliamentary parties have a guaranteed quota in election commissions at all levels. Because of this, the Primorye communists even decided to refuse to participate in the gubernatorial elections. Representatives of Yabloko referred to similar problems in the Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk regions.

Regional electoral commissions, according to Ella Pamfilova, conducted a detailed analysis of the situation with candidates from the Communist Party and received the following result: the Communists proposed 77.4 thousand candidates for the PEC, and 72.2 thousand of them were appointed. “Only 1.9%, that is, 1,482 people, are not included in the composition of the commissions,” the head of the CEC specified. And the remaining 3,700 Communist Party candidates were enrolled in the reserve because the party proposed more than one person to one commission, Ms. Pamfilova added, emphasizing that “this is not considered ‘non-enrollment’.”

Of those who were not admitted to the new composition of the PEC, 50 people refused on their own, six people died, two were under 18 years old, 14 submitted documents after the deadline for their admission, 92 candidates had an unexpunged or outstanding conviction. 49 nominees of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation had foreign citizenship, 33 had the status of a deputy (which prevents them from being appointed to the election commission), and 256 people submitted an incomplete package of documents. However, most of all – 980 people – were not included in the PEC precisely according to the results of the rating voting. It, as Ella Pamfilova explained, was carried out in cases where the number of candidates nominated by parties exceeded the allowable number of PEC members. “The law does not indicate that of those who have preferences, someone has priority,” the head of the CEC stressed. Therefore, according to her, according to the results of the rating voting, the commissions selected those who are the most efficient and efficient.

Elena Rozhkova, Andrey Prah