The result of Russian State Duma elections will be discussed at December 12 PACE bureau sitting n Paris, RIA Novosti reported.
According to representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), parliamentary elections held in Russia on December 4 cannot be considered fair.
At a joint press conference in Moscow, PACE President Petros Efthymiou, who headed the united group of observers, told journalists that a great number of Election Code violations had been noted during the election process, as well as interference by the authorities in the process. “The elections were accompanied by the institutional interference,” Efthymiou said December 5.
The ODIHR Head of Mission Goran Lennmarker said that the elections did not correspond to the European standards of conducting elections.
