Petersburg deputies appointed Irina Artyukhova as a member of the City Election Committee

The deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly appointed Irina Artyukhova as a member of the city election commission with the right to vote. 36 deputies voted for it, six abstained, six opposed, the correspondent of “Rosbalt” reports.

Artyukhova will take the place of Marina Zhdanova, whose powers were terminated ahead of schedule in December.

Her candidacy was approved by the Central Election Commission a week ago.

Irina Artyukhova has been heading the office of the regional Civic Chamber for a year and a half, she is a member of the commissions for improvement, transport, ecology and urban studies of the Public Chamber. Prior to that, she led the direction of social projects of the ANO “Rescue Service”.

Deputy Boris Vishnevsky expressed skepticism about this appointment. He stated that the city election committee continues to recruit “representatives of the decorative, not the observant community” who do not notice real violations in the elections.

“Representatives of the Public Chamber did not record violations either in the procedure for voting on amendments to the Constitution “on stumps”, or in the last elections in the city,” the deputy noted, summing up that the CEC’s claims to the work of the St. Petersburg City Electoral Committee will only multiply.

Recall that after the criticism of the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova, the deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly prematurely dismissed Marina Zhdanova, Alla Egorova and Dmitry Krasnyansky from the commission members with the right to vote of the city election committee.