Politician Boris Nadezhdin, who was nominated by the Civic Initiative for the 2024 presidential elections but was never registered as a candidate, plans to participate and win the State Duma elections in 2026. reported this RIA News.
“In the long run [перспективе] We plan to win the State Duma elections in 2026,” Nadezhdin said.
According to him, in this case it will be possible not to collect signatures for the next presidential elections planned to be held in 2030.
“So there will be no need to collect signatures as there is now. [этого не делают партии] Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Liberal Democratic Party,” the politician added.
Nadezhdin tried to register for the Russian presidential elections, but on February 8, the CEC officially rejected allowed him to register as a candidate. The politician was there in person when the decision was announced.
According to the Central Election Commission, more than 15% of the signatures submitted by Nadezhdin during verification sort of invalid. His registration was denied based on this check.
The Civic Initiative party nominated Nadezhdin as its presidential candidate in December 2023. This political organization was founded in 2012 by former Minister of Economy Andrei Nechaev.
Journalist Ksenia Sobchak was nominated as a candidate from the “Civil Initiative” in the 2018 presidential elections, receiving 1.68% of the votes.
Previously in the Kremlin I didn’t see Putin’s election rival is Boris Nadezhdin.