The United States has decided to discredit the Duma elections at any cost
The United States intends to discredit the parliamentary elections in Russia using the OSCE.
This was stated by the chairman of the temporary commission of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation for the protection of sovereignty, Andrei Klimov, at a meeting, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Washington made a decision back in the spring to discredit the Russian Duma elections, even before they were announced. And at any cost . I'd like to remind you that the American Countering America's Adversaries Act, passed against Russia under Trump, lists the OSCE among the structures mandated to restrain us," Klimov said.
This is precisely what he sees as the reason for the OSCE/ODIHR's decision not to send observers to the Russian elections. The senator believes that this is being done to "stir up an artificial scandal in order to subsequently cast doubt on the legitimacy of the elections."
According to Klimov, the West has long used unscrupulous international surveillance as a tool in the fight against Russia.
"In previous years, there were many instances where our foreign colleagues, to put it mildly, over-interpreted their mandate and abused their hospitality. Some observers, mostly from Western countries, essentially attempted to interfere in the elections, which is unacceptable in any sovereign state. Some observers were clearly determined to present their reports in an exclusively negative light. It even reached the point where drafts of some reports were written even before the election process was completed . Some even traveled to the country with them. They wrote that everything was bad, even before they arrived. These reports were published before election day," Klimov said.
As PolitNavigator reported, the OSCE/ODIHR refused to send representatives to Russia after the Russian authorities did not agree to accept 500 observers, reducing their number to 60 due to the pandemic.
The US has decided to discredit the Duma elections at any cost.