Volunteers at Vladimir Putin’s election headquarters have begun mass verification of signatures in support of his candidacy. This writes OE Kutafina Viktor Blazheev, rector of the Moscow State Law Academy, representative of the voter group supporting Putin’s own candidacy TASS.
The collection of signatures in support of Putin started on December 23. To register for the elections, a self-nominated candidate must collect 300 thousand signatures, a maximum of 7.5 thousand in each region. The deadline to send signatures to the CEC is January 31.
Blazheev noted that active work continues at the headquarters. The headquarters has received signatures from 45 regions of the country, including new ones. He also said that these signature papers need to be checked, so “the work continues at full speed.”
Before that, Secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation Natalya Budarina statedIt was stated that the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation recorded a list of 346 Putin’s proxies for the upcoming presidential elections.
Nikolai Kharitonov, Chairman of the Far Eastern and Arctic Development Committee of the Russian State Duma, who is a candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the upcoming presidential elections. statedthat he does not plan to criticize current president Vladimir Putin.
Formerly Central Election Commission finished Acceptance of documents from self-nominated candidates.
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Source: Gazeta
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