MOSCOW, February 15 Politician Boris Nadezhdin reported , that he intends to appeal to the Constitutional Court after the Supreme Court rejected a claim regarding the procedure for collecting signatures in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation.
Earlier, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation rejected the claim of politician Boris Nadezhdin, challenging the form of the list of signature collectors for registering candidates for the presidential elections
““Now we will get the motivation, we will litigate all the claims and then go to the appeal and to the Constitutional Court,” said Nadezhdin.
Nadezhdin challenged the norms of the Central Election Commission, according to which the lists of signature collectors are certified by a notary of a certain region, so they cannot collect them in another subject of Russia. It was because of this norm that the commission weeded out the signatures of residents of other regions submitted to the Moscow headquarters.
Previously, the Central Election Commission refused to register Nadezhdin as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation — the proportion of invalid signatures in support of his candidacy turned out to be higher than permissible. The politician intends to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court.
Four candidates registered by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation are vying for the post of head of state: Leonid Slutsky, Nikolai Kharitonov, Vladislav Davankov and Vladimir Putin. Voting will take place on March 15-17.