CHITA, July 30 The Electoral Commission of the Zabaikalsky Krai registered the region's governor, Alexander Osipov, as a candidate for the election of the head of the region, a correspondent from the commission meeting reports.
«Based on the results of the working group's check, not a single signature was recognized as invalid or not counted. That is, all 277 signatures, including 51 second-level signatures, were recognized as valid… Thus, the number of signatures meets the requirements of Article 26 of the Law «On the Election of the Governor of the Zabaikalsky Krai» and is sufficient for registration,» a representative of the electoral commission said during the meeting.
The commission unanimously supported the nomination of Osipov as a self-nominated candidate for the elections of the governor of the Zabaikalsky Krai. He was presented with a certificate of a registered candidate.
Earlier, the electoral commission of the region registered as candidates for governor the former deputy of Zabaikalsky Valery Afitsinsky, the director of the ensemble «Zabaikalskie Kazaki» Konstantin Korostelev, the deputy of the legislative assembly of the region Georgy Shilin, the head of the youth center «Iskra» Vyacheslav Palshin and the member of the public chamber of the region Natalia Kochergina.