Two Navalny allies win election in Russian town where he was poisoned
15 September, 2020
Two allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny won native parliament chairs Monday in the Siberian town of Tomsk where he was allegedly poisoned last month, according to early on poll results.
Andrei Fateyev and Ksenia Fadeyeva arrived on top in two constituencies, as the ruling United Russia get together topped the polls general in Tomsk with 24.46 percent of the vote, relating to early results published by regional election officials.
However the vote for the pro-Kremlin party was sharply low in the Siberian city, which has a populace of some 500,000, than in the last poll in 2015 in which United Russia earned with 52.27 percent of the ballot.
Navalny, a 44-year-old lawyer and Kremlin critic have been in Siberia to market his "smart voting" plan when he was poisoned using what Germany says was a Novichok nerve agent previous month.
His associates believe the application of the banned chemical substance weapon demonstrates only the Russian talk about could be responsible.
"I believe everyone will understand that it had been a question of principle to gain in Tomsk after what happened there," Fadeyeva wrote on Twitter.
In several dozen of the country's 85 regions, Russians voted between Friday and Sunday for regional governors and lawmakers in regional and city legislatures aswell as in a number of by-elections for national MPs.
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