Former candidate tries to appeal election results at Supreme Court
Ihar Sluchak, a former candidate for the Parliament
at the Homel-Savetskaya constituency #34, filed an appeal against the results
of the election at this constituency to the Supreme Court. He asks the court to
abolish the ruling of the Central Election Commission of 5 October according to
which he was denied in holding a repeated counting of votes. He also asks the
court to appoint the repeated vote counting at the constituency.
According to Sluchak's information, a parallel calculation of voters was lead
by independent observers and his electioneering agents at 27 polling stations
of the constituency. The constituency election commission overestimated the
turnout twice in comparison to the real number. In particular, according to the
observers 37.44% electors voted at the polling station #3, whereas the commission
wrote 68.93% in the final protocol, 24.7% voted at the polling station #4
whereas the official turnout is 69.38%.
“On the basis of this information and appeals of 18 observers I addressed the
Central Election Commission with a requirement of a repeated calculation of
votes. The CEC refused to grant my appeal. I consider this ruling unfair on the
basis of the aforementioned facts,” stated the former candidate in his appeal
to the Supreme Court.
“Though the Electoral Code doesn't provide the right of a candidate to appeal
against the results of elections at court, I filed this appeal as the norms of
the Constitution are superior to that of other legislation. That's why if the
Supreme Court has a good will, it will consider my appeal and appoint the repeated
calculation of votes in the constituency where I have been running. The facts
which were registered by the observers witness that some violations of the law
were committed. A negative reply will mean a denial of justice. Moreover, there
are many blank spots in the electoral legislation which don't allow for making
the polling transparent, and this issue needs to be solved too,” commented Ihar
Sluchak.
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