A Russian opposition leader has said he will take legal action to demand that disputed Moscow city elections be held again. Skip related content
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Call for new Moscow poll after votes 'disappear'
It comes after he discovered his own vote had not been counted in the October 11 polls.
Opposition lawmakers last week briefly walked out of parliament in a challenge to the results, which have been endorsed by the Central Electoral Commission and President Dmitry Medvedev as fair overall.
"Our goal is to force a full cancellation of the results of the election and the appointment of a new date for polling. We will make all the efforts to reach this," said Sergei Mitrokhin, the leader of the small, pro-western Yabloko party.
Mitrokhin said the fact that no votes for his party had been recorded at his polling station meant neither his own vote nor that of his wife could have been counted on election day. They were subsequently found in a recount.
Russia's ruling party, United Russia, crushed opposition parties in the local elections held across much of Russia, with the results for the Moscow region handing Putin's party more than 90 percent of its seats. Yabloko lost its Moscow representation completely.
Medvedev has repeatedly promised greater democracy and pluralism in his speeches but opposition politicians and independent analysts say the tightly controlled political system is squeezing out the last pockets of dissent.
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