Posted on 10/14/2018 1:17:37 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Communist wunderkind Valentin Konovalov should already be Siberia’s youngest governor, but the elections he’s supposed to win are cancelled every other week.
The virtually unknown 30-year-old rode a wave of protest to win a first-round ballot in Khakassia, a republic in eastern Siberia, last month. The results were an embarrassment for the ruling United Russia party and the Kremlin, which backed the incumbent. But his opponents have found an easy way to keep him from winning the run-off: don’t hold it.
“It’s absurd,” said the candidate, who names Lenin as a political inspiration, over a cup of tea. So far, two of Konovalov’s opponents have dropped out, delaying the vote by two weeks each, and now an elections commission claims he misfiled his paperwork. Konovalov is likely to be disqualified.
“We should have won the elections outright,” he said. “Now they’re trying to keep power illegally.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Communists complaining about rigged elections in Russia. Irony abounds.
Ah.... the old days. When your opponents would get.... sick. You know, ‘lead poisoning’’ or they might need a ‘’vacation’’ in Siberia.
This commie will end up dead soon enough!
Yeah, politics over there is a blood sport.
Who does this moron think rigged the elections in Russia for 80 years?
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