ROZHDESTVENO (Moscow region), December 23 The Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has nominated State Duma Deputy Nikolai Kharitonov as a candidate for the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, said State Duma Deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Denis Parfenov.
The Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is being held in Snegiri, near Moscow.
The presidential elections of the Russian Federation are scheduled for March 2024.
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«The XVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated a candidate for the election of the President of Russia — Nikolai Mikhailovich Kharitonov!» — wrote Parfenov in his Telegram channel.
«Comrade Kharitonov will go to the elections as part of a large team of communists and managers, capable spread the successful experience of Pavel Grudinin, Sergei Levchenko, Andrei Klychkov, Ivan Kazankov and many others throughout the country,” the deputy added.
According to the parliamentarian, the composition of the future government of people’s trust and national interests will reflect “the interests of the broadest layers of the working people.»
The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, ran for the post of President of the Russian Federation four times — in 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2012. He took second place in all presidential elections. In 1996, he was close to victory: during the first round on June 16, 1996, Boris Yeltsin received 35.28% of the votes, Zyuganov — 32.03%, but in the second round the then President of the Russian Federation, who began the campaign with a very low rating in the winter of 1996, th, won with 53.82% of the votes against 40.31% for the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Kharitonov was nominated from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the 2004 presidential elections, then gaining 13.69% of the votes and taking second place. In 2018, the party candidate was the director of the Lenin state farm, Pavel Grudinin (11.77% of the votes, 2nd place).