Karmazin says he will seek justice in reliability of election results in six more regions
Kyiv, February 15 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Former Ukrainian MP Yuriy Karmazin has said he intends to seek an investigation into fraud in the parliamentary elections in other districts, in addition to the two in which he managed to achieve the recognition of the election results in court as invalid.
"I submitted a motion to the prosecutor's office, the Interior Ministry and the Security Service with respect to all [districts in which, in his opinion, the elections were rigged], and they told me that they launched [proceedings] in all of them, but they've currently given an answer on [only] two districts," Karmazin said at a press conference on Friday.
He said that he sent the materials on the rigging of the results of parliamentary elections in a number of constituencies in November 2012 as a human rights activist and, according to unofficial information, the law enforcement agencies are also holding an investigation in other districts.
Karmazin said that he was dissatisfied with the ruling of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine on constituencies Nos. 11 and 71 and the results of the Interior Ministry's investigation since those guilty of fraud were not identified and called to account.
Therefore he intends to demand that the Prosecutor General's Office determine all those guilty in these two districts and in other districts on the basis of the materials he submitted.
"If you want to know my personal plans on which districts I will submit motions, then now I'm working on materials on election fraud in Cherkasy, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Kyiv regions," he said.
"All must be held accountable where the fraud was reported," he said.
As reported, the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine on Friday declared as inaccurate the results of the election of people's deputies in single-seat constituency No. 11 (Vinnytsia region) and single-seat constituency No. 71 (Zakarpattia region), where Dombrovsky and Baloha, respectively, were declared winners of the 2012 parliamentary election in Ukraine and obliged the CEC to hold repeat elections in these constituencies.
Parliamentary elections in Ukraine were held in October 2012.