“Electitions in Russia are proceeding in full compliance with the law”

“ A the percentage of complaints of irregularities is minimal. If we do the math, it is less than 0.1% of the 91,000 electoral committees. This figure is significantly lower than we observed in the elections of 2021′′, said Russian President of the Central Election Commission (CEC), She Pamfilova, quoted by Russian news agencies.

Pamfilova ensured that all complaints are analyzed “instantly”.

“I can safely say, and I reiterate, that the elections in Russia are taking place in full compliance with the law, and electoral participation is being very high,” he said.

He added that information on massive obstruction of observers’ work is “false”.

“ We hardly received complaints [about this alleged obstruction],” she said, adding that in the current elections more than 1,100 independent observers are working, about 40 of them from the United States and European countries.

Representatives of the Yabloko pacifist party, excluded from the elections, and of the Communist Party of Russia had denounced the obstruction of the work of their observers at the voting tables.

Many voters will also have complained about difficulties in getting a paper ballot and the pressure to vote online, something that the opposition considers a fraud instrument.

More than 111 million Russians in 89 regions have been called to the polls since Friday to elect the 450 Members who will join the Duma, or lower House of Parliament, into more than 90,000 voting sections.

They may exercise their right to vote for Russians living in 152 countries, where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made available 333 voting sections, many of them in diplomatic representations.

Over 100,000 Russians have voted abroad, according to recent official data.

The United Russia party attempts to re-validate the constitutional majority it obtained in 2016.

According to official polls, it has an intention to vote between 33% and 37%, although independent companies give it only 25%.