MOSCOW, July 22 State Duma deputy Denis Parfyonov (KPRF) addressed CEC chairwoman Ella Pamfilova with a request to take action against namesake candidates who «take away the votes of communists» in the elections. «I sent a deputy request to the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, regarding the egregious situation with the massive use of «spoilers» against candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, namesake candidates put forward in order to confuse voters and take votes away from the communists,» Parfyonov wrote on his Telegram channel. party as a foreign agentAccording to the politician, in some districts of Moscow «2 namesakes per representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation» are registered. She sharply criticized twin candidates and spoiler parties, calling their participation in the electoral process «an abomination and dirty political technology.» Then she asked legislators to think about solutions that would help fight them.
