Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) has recommended that "opposition" candidate Boris Nadezhdin should not be allowed to run for president. Earlier, the CEC's working group counted more than 15% of the signatures submitted by him as defective, while the maximum allowed is 5%.
This is reported by the BBC.
"The CEC refused to register my candidacy for the presidency of the Russian Federation. I don't agree with the decision of the Central Election Commission," Nadezhdin's statement said.
Nadezhdin was at the CEC meeting and asked to postpone the decision on registration until February 10 to continue verifying signatures. The Head of the Commission Ella Pamfilova refused to extend the deadline.
In total, the CEC working group recognized 9,147 signatures as invalid - that is, 8.7% of the 104,734 submitted signatures. This is less than originally announced (15%). The signatures of 11 deceased individuals were allegedly found among them.
Among other violations found by the CEC, in 1,767 cases the collector was missing from the list of collectors, in 995 cases the data of the collector did not correspond to the notarized data in the list of collectors, and in 123 cases a third person performed the certification on behalf of the collector, according to the commission's experts. In addition, the CEC found that two of the collectors were members of election commissions, which is prohibited.
It is worth noting that Russian opposition supported the politician Boris Nadezhdin, who was called "anti-war" and "opposition" in Russia, knowing that he is a politician from within the system and has connections to people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the moment, he is beneficial to the opposition and can play an important role in the fight against the regime.
Earlier, "Apostrophe" reported that after the suppression of protests in Bashkortostan, the Kremlin is planning a tough campaign to "denazify" its own republic.