Moscow, 4 Dec (EFE).-the Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkáplerov and Antoli Ivanishin, crew members of the international space station (ISS), voted in parliamentary elections that take place in Russia, today reported the center of Control of space flights (CCVE).
Shkáplerov e Ivanishin exercised their right to vote at a meeting of private communication of 20 minutes when the ISS flying over the Atlantic Ocean, said a spokesman for CCVE to the official Russian Agency RIA-Nóvosti.
As it had overtaken the CCVE, Russian ISS crew voted through a legal representative, Dmitry Zhukov, representative of the Centre for training of Gagarin Cosmonaut, who you reported by radio your choice electoral.
Then representative marked the options of the cosmonauts on the ballot, which deposited, already with the press, in an urn which was made especially for this purpose space flight Control Centre.
The CCVE spokesman said than the last parliamentary elections in 2007, and the presidential elections of 2008 the Russian crew of the ISS also voted through a legal representative.
In Soviet times the cosmonauts who were in the station Salyut voted in elections publicly, at a meeting of communication spread by television.
“The polity of the country consisted of a single party, and therefore, the cosmonauts reported unanimously that they gave their vote to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,” recalled spokesman CCVE.
In addition to the two Russian cosmonauts, the current crew of the ISS the integrates American astronaut Daniel Burbank.EFE
