This Saturday, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) refused to register the popular initiative that proposed the nomination of the anti-Kremlin journalist last week. Yekaterina Duntsova to the presidency of Russia.
“We found errors in Yekaterina Duntsova’s documents,” a representative of the Central Election Committee said during a meeting broadcast live on the Internet. In total, the works submitted by Duntsova contained up to a hundred errors, including some Typos in the first and last names of members of your support group, according to the Russian electoral authority.
According to the President of the CEC, Ela PamfilovaThere are currently 29 people seeking to run for the March 2024 presidential election.
Duntsova submitted her documents to the CEC on the 20th.
“I would like to emphasize that there is no reason to refuse registration. “After that we can open the (bank) account and start a new phase of our campaign, the collection of signatures,” which is necessary for independent candidates, the journalist said that day.
The last Sunday, Duntsova, 40, received support from 521 of the more than 700 participants to an independent congress in Moscow.
In mid-November, the journalist announced her election plans, arguing that the country had been moving “in the wrong direction over the last decade,” a path that led to “self-destruction.”
It advocates, among other things, the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, the introduction of democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners.
Political scientists assume that the current Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin , Anyone seeking re-election and whose popular initiative was registered in the ZEK on March 20th will be received on March 17th, 2024 “a level of support of more than 70%”, while some predict it will even surpass 2018’s 76.7%.
According to official polls in recent days, 80% of Russians support the leadership of Putin, who has ruled this country as prime minister since 2000 with a four-year break (2008-2012).