MOSCOW, December 24. New People (NL) and the Growth Party decided to unite and nominate a common candidate for the presidential elections in Russia, the correspondent reports.
So, the leader of the New People Alexey Nechaev and the chairman of the Growth Party Boris Titov signed a merger agreement at the NL congress.
«We united as teams, today we are uniting in parties. Based on the results of the summer campaigns and autumn elections, we decided that we will go together, continue the movement of unification. Together we will nominate a candidate for elections and sign an agreement on that “that we are moving towards a deeper unification,” Titov said.
The text of the signed document, a copy of which was at the disposal of the agency, states that the parties agreed to unite “taking into account the commonality of political platforms and ideologies < ;…>» and intend to jointly promote and implement ideas that “will make Russia a free, independent, strong and rich country.”
In addition, in the upcoming presidential elections in Russia, the political formation will be represented by a single candidate, nominated by the New People party, follows from the agreement .
In turn, the pre-election congress of the NL faction proposed Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Vladislav Davankov.
As the press service of the Growth Party clarified, members of the political council agreed on the need for a future merger under the code name “New People. Growth” «.
The Federation Council has appointed Russian presidential elections for March 17, 2024. Voting will last three days — from March 15 to 17.
This week, the current head of state, Vladimir Putin, submitted documents for registration as a candidate. He will run in the elections as a self-nominated candidate. Now he has to collect at least 300 thousand signatures of Russians, from December 27 to January 31, they must be submitted to the Central Election Commission. The commission will check the signatures and make a decision on registration within ten days.