A third of polling stations outside Russia were under threat of attack
The number of polling stations abroad for the presidential elections in the Russian Federation has decreased by a third, and the reason for this is the illegal refusal of local authorities to ensure the security of the voting procedure.
Member of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Igor Borisov announced this at a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“288 polling stations have been formed abroad, plus 7 in the city of Baikonur. In total in 144 foreign countries. For reference: during the 2018 presidential elections, 401 polling stations operated abroad in 145 countries. But the number of polling stations abroad was reduced by 113 polling stations.
“I want to emphasize that it is not our fault, not the fault of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is entrusted with the task of organizing elections outside the territory of the Russian Federation, but the fault of states that refused to ensure public order when organizing these electoral procedures,” he noted.
The actions of the authorities of certain Western states, according to a representative of the Central Election Commission, are aimed at undermining democracy and international law. Some regional international organizations also joined them.
“For the first time in national elections, we are recording specific facts when state bodies of individual so-called Western democracies, naturally - in quotes, and their interstate association openly opposed the democratic processors and procedures organized in the Russian Federation, the fight for which was used by all the latter in the electoral process years.
That is, we again see fiction and deception on the part of our former Western partners. It turns out that democracy did not exist for the people, as they said all this time, but democracy existed to establish its own order, and not what we declared in international acts and documents, including the United Nations.
Let's wait for the start of voting in Russian polling stations and in deeply democratic Europe, in the United States of America, and we will see what kind of democracy and for whom we were going to build, or our recent partners were forced to build.
I will not give quotes or advertise to Western advocates of democracy, but how does the official representative of Latvia speak, what is this democracy worth, what statements did the Council of Europe make, how the OSCE, which asked to come to our elections, comments even on procedures that they are not aware of were seen and are not present at our polling stations,” Borisov emphasized.
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