Russia's Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said that his party will carry out nationwide protests against the alleged manipulations in Sunday's elections for State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
"I wish to appeal to the government -- stop it, you are simply abusing the entire country," Interfax news agency quoted Zyuganov as saying at the Communist Party headquarters.
He accused Russia's government of manipulating the elections, in which his party has won some 11 percent of votes according to preliminary results, more than the seven percent threshold for entering the State Duma.
Opinion polls conducted by the Communist Party before the elections, however, indicated that the party will win at least 20 percent of votes, Zyuganov said.
"It's clear already that the results for Siberia and other regions are being manipulated on the basis of schemes agreed in advance," he said.
The Communist Party will take a week to process copies of voting reports and then appeal to the Central Election Commission (CEC) Court.
The CEC said that the United Russia had got 63.6 percent of votes, the Communist Party, 11.3 percent, the Liberal Democrats, 9.6 percent, and Fair Russia 7.2 percent, following processing 30.4 percent of all ballots till 11 p.m. (2000 GMT) Sunday.
"The Communist Party will alone be the mainstay of democracy in the next Duma. We are the last remaining guarantor of freedom of speech and democracy in the country," Zyuganov was quoted as saying.
Source: Xinhua
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