Boris NadejdinHE only primary candidate has pacifism as the central framework of his candidacy presidential elections Russian next marchwill not be able to fight. Central Election Commission On Thursday, he decided to reject his candidacy on the grounds that he submitted too many invalid signatures. Nadezhdin was already expecting such a measure and criticized the difficulty of collecting the necessary signatures “in such a short time”.
“While there was tens of millions of people “They will vote for me, they are talking about 11 signatures from dead people,” the affected person said in the session where he tried to defend his candidacy and the signatures collected by his team. 9,500 signatures were not considered defective. However, he managed to defend only about 60 signatures, which was insufficient to enter the presidential race as he was left with 95,000 signatures. at least to participate in the elections 100,000.
Despite all the negativities, his team could not achieve this. lower your arms. Nadezhdin himself stated that he would appeal the decision. Supreme Court. He also asked the Central Election Commission for additional time until the election. next February 10so that he and his team can compare and correct any possible errors among their documents and participate in the elections. However, the authorities rejected this request. He wasn’t the only one left offsideThe leader of the Communists of Russia party, Sergei Malinkovich, and bloggers Rada Russkij and Anatoly Batashev will not be able to attend the ceremony. The former had already announced that he would not appeal the decision, even though he had it. same problem While he surpassed Nadezhdin with the signatures he collected, the ‘influencers’ did not send enough signatures either.
a ray of light
While other candidates languish in the president’s shadow Vladimir PutinThe only person who had no intention of having a real fight with the current Kremlin chief was Nadezhdin. dared to defend it can do business with Ukraine and this peace between two countries Possible. This different point of view earned him a certain reputation in some parts of the major cities that came to sign his candidacy and excited those who believed in a friendly relationship between Moscow and Kiev. His views also drew criticism from state channel spokesmen such as Vladimir Solovyov, who predicted that Nadezhdin would probably “go to jail” for his way of thinking.
Some of the other ‘claimants’ of the Russian leadership have said this openly: they have no intention Winning elections or voting for them is not voting against the Russian president. This is the case of the communist candidate who, when asked by a Russian journalist about his intentions to win, responds by beating around the bush; or Leonid Slutski, candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR in Russian), when announcing his candidacy, had already assured that voting for him did not mean “voting against Putin”.