MOSCOW, January 23 Politician Boris Nadezhdin reported that his headquarters continues to collect signatures from citizens to obtain the status of a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation; they plan to submit them to the Central Election Commission on January 31.
«Technically, we have already collected more than 100 thousand signatures at our headquarters, but we have set the task of collecting 150 thousand signatures and we are collecting them for three more days, because we need to select the best from these 150 thousand. That is, we do not stop collecting signatures» , — said Nadezhdin.
According to him, now the headquarters plans to move on to registering signatures for submission.
«There's a whole story there, the collectors need to be notarized. Roughly speaking, this will take a week, the deadline is January 31, and we'll hand it over on the thirty-first (signatures to the Central Election Commission — ed.),» the politician said .
The Federation Council has scheduled presidential elections for March 17, 2024. Voting will last three days: March 15, 16 and 17.
Currently, 11 people are vying for the post of head of state. The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation has registered three presidential candidates — Leonid Slutsky, Nikolai Kharitonov and Vladislav Davankov. Since all three are representatives of parliamentary parties, collecting signatures in their support is not required to register as candidates for elections.
Nominees from non-parliamentary political parties — Sergei Malinkovich, Boris Nadezhdin, Andrei Bogdanov, Sergei Baburin, Irina Sviridova must submit at least 100 thousand by January 31.
Self-nominees — Vladimir Putin, the Russian Rada, Anatoly Batashev — need to collect at least 300 thousand signatures. Earlier, signature sheets were submitted to the commission by Putin’s headquarters.
The Central Election Commission must make a decision on the registration of all candidates no later than February 10.