Denuncias generalizadas de fraude electoral (video).
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Las elecciones del domingo "no fueron justas y no cumplieron muchos de las obligaciones y estándares para elecciones democráticas de la OSCE y el Consejo de Europa", afirmaron los observadores en una rueda de prensa en Moscú.
Agregaron que los comicios "tuvieron lugar en un ambiente que limita seriamente la competencia política" y que "no hubo igualdad de condiciones".
[...] La OSCE se había quejado al gobierno de Moscú de imponer restricciones inaceptables y retrasar deliberadamente la entrega de visas a sus funcionarios, por lo que sólo 330 observadores pudieron atender los comicios para cubrir cerca de 100.000 centros de votación.
Los comunistas son los únicos opositores que consiguieron suficientes votos para superar el 7% necesario para tener representación parlamentaria ya que los otros dos partidos que consiguieron pasar este listón están situados en la órbita del presidente.
BlogBis dice:
Estoy esperando la reacción airada de los grandes demócratas de la izquierda que aman a Putin. como amaron a Stalin, a Pol Pot, a Castro, a Chávez, a Ahmadinejad y a todo miserable que esté contra los Estados Unidos.
Qué importa que los observadores internacionales aseguren que no fueron limpios. Son todos agentes a sueldo de la CIA y la Mossad.
Puede que los contenedores sin sellar tuvieran algo que ver h/t Sugiero. Foto: Dagbladet.
Pero eso sí, la "Generación Putin" celebra los resultados (da igual que haya fraude...): alrededor de 10.000 miembros del movimiento Nachi, una rama militante de partidarios jóvenes de Vladimir Putin, se han reunido hoy en Moscú para celebrar los resultados de las legislativas.
Spiegel Online señala que el fraude fue generalizado porque no se entiende por ejemplo que en Chechenia o Ingushetia,con un elevadísimo nivel de paro, votase el 98 o el 99%, lo que sugiere que se ha vuelto al tiempo de las manipulaciones soviéticas. Alrededor de un 69% de los rusos decían que las elecciones iban a estar manipuladas antes de que tuvieran lugar y el 94% señala que saben que no tienen ninguna influencia en la vida política del país.
Pero sin duda lo más (o menos, según se mire) sorprendente es:
Al mismo tiempo, un tercio de los rusos mantienen que el sistema soviético es mejor que la democracia occidental.
Pues no se preocupen, que Putin va a ayudarles a volver al sistema soviético.
(+) La comunidad internacional está seriamente preocupada por las denuncias de fraude:
- Alemania: no han sido elecciones libres.
- EEUU: Bush no felicitará a Putin.
- Paris quiere "toda la luz" sobre las legislativas rusas.
- Italia ha llamado a clarificar el resultado.
- El primer ministro polaco está inquieto por las posibles irregularidades.
- A Lituania no le sorprendió la victoria de Rusia Unida.
- Austria cree que una glaciación democrática se abate sobre Rusia.
- La OTAN desea continuar seguir trabajando con Rusia.
Fraud claims in Russia poll (video inside).
Opposition parties say there’s been widespread fraud and intimidation in Russia’s parliamentary elections.
More in Yahoo! Reuters:
The Communists, Liberals and foreign observers criticized the vote as unfair. Opposition leader Garry Kasparov, the ex-chess champion, denounced the vote Monday as "the most unfair and dirtiest in the whole history of modern Russia."
But Putin and his allies praised the result as an overwhelming endorsement of his leadership and policies.
"Of course it's a sign of trust," Putin said in televised remarks. "Russians will never allow the nation to take a destructive path, as happened in some other ex-Soviet nations."
The election followed a tense Kremlin campaign that relied in part on persuasion and intimidation to ensure a rout for United Russia and the president, who has used Russia's energy riches in an effort to restore Moscow's influence on the global stage.
“He has created really an authoritarian system, in which he is like a hill in the desert, and nobody is around,” Mr. Yavlinsky said. “Now time has come to make a transfer of power, and he really, really has no idea how to do that. And nobody else has any idea. And his character is such that he has no confidence in anybody.” Still, not everyone believes that the disquiet will last.
Maybe unsealed containers had something to do about the irregularities...
Photo: Dagbladet.
Anyway, the so-called "Putin's Generation" has celebrated the result:
Around 10,000 members of the Nachi movement, the young supporters of the President Putin, have met in Moscow to celebrate the victory of the President in the legislative elections yesterday.
Spiegel Online about Russian elections:
Opposition parties meanwhile failed miserably. Yabloko and SPS, both liberal parties, hardly managed to win more than 1 percent of the vote and will not send representatives to the Duma, Russia's parliament. Indeed, the only halfway independent party to make it over the 7 percent hurdle -- the result parties have to achieve to be able to send representatives to the Duma -- were the Communists. But even they have often shown themselves to be loyal to Putin, particularly when it comes to foreign policy.
The vote for Putin was particularly strong in Chechnya and Ingushetia. The voter turnout of 99 and 98 percent respectively points to a revival of Soviet manipulation practices. No one in Russia believes that Putin and his party are more popular in impoverished villages in the Caucasus plagued by rampant unemployment.
Indeed, many seem to think that the Kremlin may have overdone things. It's not just the opposition that is unimpressed. Discomfort with the election is evident in wide swaths of Russian society, even including Russian security forces. The overwhelming majority of Russians, one survey puts it at 69 percent, suspected even before the election that the results would be manipulated. In a survey by Moscow's Levada Institute, 94 percent of those polled said they had "absolutely no influence" on politics in their country.
Disdain for the West
At the same time the polls show that around a third of Russians think the Soviet system was better than Western democracy. The poverty and chaos that characterized much of the 1990s led to severe skepticism of political plurality in the country. Many were humiliated by the way US-friendly politicians allowed the country to be at the mercy of the International Monetary Fund.
Western-supported chaos on Russia's borders, particularly in Ukraine and Georgia, have led many to further question foreign advice. When Putin points to Bush's unhappy Baghdad expedition and announces that Russians don't need "democracy like in Iraq," he can be sure of their resounding approval.
United Russia party boss Boris Boris Gryzlov: "Of course there are violations, but the question is do they have an impact on the final result." The fact that the violations were even discovered, he added, showed there was transparency in the Russian election.
Monitors denounce Russia elections @ BBC.
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