A Euronews in Russian report on the results of the Moscow mayoral election
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In Moscow’s early mayoral election, according to
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preliminary results, the frontrunners are
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the acting incumbent mayor,
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Sergei Sobyanin. More than
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51% of Muscovites voted for him. In
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second place is opposition politician Alexei
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Navalny, who received more than 27% of the vote.
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The first direct election for the capital’s mayor in
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the past 10 years took place amid low
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voter turnout. According to the Moscow City
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Election Commission, it was about
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33%. The video monitoring center of the public headquarters for
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observing the Moscow mayoral election
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recorded 22 violations during
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the vote count. The voter rights organization
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Golos says that at the time
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polling stations closed,
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no serious violations had been recorded, but
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numerous violations were noted in
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the organization of at-home voting. We
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are calling on Moscow City Hall not
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to take any steps toward
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organizing falsification. We understand
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perfectly well that they have a great temptation
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right now to add some 8–10 percentage points
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to their tally and present it as a first-round
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victory. Alexei Navalny is demanding
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that the results of voting outside
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polling stations be annulled and that a
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second round be held. Sergei Sobyanin said that
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the election was the fairest and
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most transparent in Moscow’s history.