The Central Election Commission allowed Boris Nadezhdin to open an electoral account and begin collecting signatures for nomination as a presidential candidate. The politician announced this in his Telegram channel.
As SOTA writes, the commission made this decision unanimously. The CEC also registered authorized representatives of Nadezhdin.
The politician himself was nominated for the presidential election from the Civil Initiative party on December 23, three days later he submitted documents to the Central Election Commission. Now he has to collect 100 thousand voter signatures.
According to Nadezhdin’s election website, he is running in the elections “as a principled opponent of the policies of the current president.” “Putin sees the world from the past and drags Russia into the past. Russia needs a future—the future of a country that free and educated people will look up to and to which they will want to return or move,” Nadezhdin’s manifesto says. The politician also believes that “Putin made a fatal mistake by starting the SVO.”
Previously, the Central Election Commission did not allow Ekaterina Duntsova, a journalist from Rzhev, who advocated ending the war in Ukraine, to collect signatures to participate in the presidential elections. The reason for the refusal to register her initiative group was errors in the documents, due to which some of the signatures were rejected. There were not enough remaining signatures to register Duntsova’s initiative group. Later, the journalist challenged this decision in the Supreme Court, but was rejected.