The Russian Public Chamber communicates to the international community the true voice of people, not the tenets imposed from overseas, said LRP Hero Alexey Karyakin, chairman of the advisory and consultative body of the Lugansk People’s Republic.
Karyakin was speaking at the Public Chamber round table discussion of 2022 election monitoring results provided by its coordination council for public control of voting.
“We drove round many voting stations at the referendum together with international observer Alexander Brod. He saw how everything was going, he asked questions of people to confirm the opinion that people were coming to vote because they were tired of the imposed stereotypes which Donbass could not accept,” he said.
The world is showing a trend where “everything what happens in Russia or with the support from Russia, is viewed negatively, whereas events in the USA are an exclusive norm,” Karyakin said.
“The Donbass referendum showed the fallacy of this position. The plebiscites of 2014 and 2022 were truly democratic and transparent. People’s votes showed that despite the threat to their lives they were making a free choice which was confirmed by the international monitors present at voting stations,” he went on to say.
The LPR Hero also supported the idea to revise the election institute and make it adopt new technology.
“We show to the whole world that people in Donbass are defending their opinion and choosing their future. They have a long way to go, but we’ve repeatedly declared that we chose that path back in 2014,” Karyakin said.
The participants in the round table discussion were Russian Public Chamber members, officials from the Central Election Commission and CIS Parliamentary Assembly, election experts and journalists. They considered the experience in public monitoring of voting in the Russian Federation, consolidation of the monitoring community and the results of Russian Public Chamber observer missions at the elections in foreign states in 2022.
The Lugansk People’s Republic became a part of Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*v
