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Russian communists say overturning ‘stolen’ election not enough
Electoral commission annuls Putin candidate's win in Primorsky Krai, but communists say their man's victory must be confirmed
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OFFICIALS in Russia’s far east have overturned the result of an election the opposition Communist Party (KPRF) says was stolen, but communists poured scorn on their decision to rerun the vote.
With almost 98 per cent of votes counted in Primorsky Krai, KPRF candidate Andrei Ischenko had a 28,000-vote lead over acting governor Andrei Tarasenko of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party when a string of late-declaring precincts declared suspicious 100 per cent votes for Mr Tarasenko.
An outcry from KPRF supporters in the coastal region has led its election commission to annul Mr Tarasenko’s victory and call another vote in December.
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