Candidate Boris Nadeždin assures that he will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.
Russian the central election board has rejected 15 percent of the signatures it checked the president Vladimir Putin of an aspiring challenger Boris Nadezhdin in supporter cards. Nadezhdinin, a Moscow politician who opposes the war, is running for office in the Russian presidential elections to be held in the middle of next month.
The representative of Nadeždin's election campaign tells about it Igor Artyomov on his Telegram channel. According to Artjomov, the board has checked 60,000 signatures and rejected exactly 15.348 percent of them. The nomination will be rejected if more than five percent of the signatures are invalid in the board's inspection.
The candidate handed over to the board the previously required more than 100,000 signatures of supporters, which had been collected from different parts of Russia. Vice-chairman of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulayev told already on Friday, that the signatories of the support cards would have been found to be “dead souls”, i.e. people who don't exist.
Independently 7×7 news agency according to the board used a wide range of grounds for rejection. For example, the date of the signature or the clarification of the name was done incorrectly or the name was on a separate list that was not confirmed by the notary.
Central Election Commission is scheduled to make its final decision on Nadeždin's candidacy on Wednesday. News site Medusa according to the candidate intends to appeal the rejections and if the appeal does not proceed, he will take the case to the Supreme Court of Russia.
Signing Nadezhdin's supporter cards became a kind of anti-war protest movement in Russia during January. Rejection of the candidacy both by the Central Election Commission and possibly by the Supreme Court is considered probable.
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