The «Russian National Union» was denied registration of candidates for the State Duma

MOSCOW, Aug 10. The CEC of Russia refused to register the federal list of candidates for the State Duma, nominated by the Russian National Union party, follows from the CEC resolution adopted at its meeting on Tuesday. The Russian national union «needed to collect signatures of 200,000 voters. «The problem of Crimea», pensions and vaccines. With what the parties go to the elections As previously reported by CEC member Yevgeny Shevchenko, in the documents of the party «Russian National Union», submitted to the CEC for registration of the federal list of candidates in the State Duma, numerous shortcomings were revealed. For example, the party provided an insufficient number of voters' signatures, including unbound and photocopied signature lists. Also, the party, in violation of the law, did not submit a protocol on the results of the collection of signatures either on paper or on electronic media, did not provide all the documents that candidates must submit. “What we have collected, I have no doubts, and that we managed to hand over 200 thousand signatures by 6 pm on August 4, we have no evidence,” said the chairman of the party Sergei Baburin. upset that the party failed to collect the required number of signatures. “It was important that the party went through all the stages at the federal level, collected signatures, we helped all those who collect signatures in the regions,” she said. Pamfilova assessed the preparation of candidates for the elections According to CEC member Yevgeny Shevchenko, the party submitted 93,907 signatures to the CEC in support of the nomination of a federal list of candidates, which is insufficient to register a federal list. «To refuse to register the federal list of candidates for State Duma deputies, nominated by the Russian National Union, due to the insufficient number of reliable signatures of candidates presented in support of the nomination of the federal list of candidates,» Shevchenko read out the CEC resolution adopted at a meeting on Tuesday. federal list of candidates for State Duma deputies from the party. There were 258 candidates on the federal party list submitted to the CEC. At the head of the list are party chairman Sergei Baburin, as well as Andrei Kormukhin and Maria Nikitenkova. Voting in the elections to the State Duma and other elections on a single voting day will be held this year from 17 to 19 September. The State Duma is elected for a five-year term under a mixed electoral system: 225 deputies are elected from party lists, another 225 — from single-mandate constituencies in one round. June 18, 14:29 InfographicsElections to the State Duma — 2021InfographicsView