The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia this Saturday denied anti-Kremlin journalist Ekaterina Duntsova the chance to run in next year’s presidential election and face Vladimir Putin at the polls.
“We found errors in Ekaterina Duntsova’s documents,” a CEC representative said during a meeting broadcast live on the Internet.
Overall, the Russian election authority detected this In the documents submitted by Duntsova there were up to a hundred errorsincluding some typos in the first and last names of his support group members.
According to the president of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, currently 29 people aspire to become candidates in the March 2024 presidential elections.
Three days ago, Duntsova submitted the documents required by law to the CEC.
Duntsova wanted to run against Putin in next year’s elections.“I stress that there are no reasons to deny registration. Then we can open the (bank) account and start a new phase of our campaign: the collection of signatures” necessary for independent candidates, the journalist said that day. .
On Sunday, Duntsova, 40, received the support of 521 of the more than 700 participants at the independent congress held in Moscow.
The journalist announced her electoral plans in mid-November, claiming that “over the last ten years the country has moved in the wrong direction”, a path that leads to “self-destruction”.
Among other proposals, it supports the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, the introduction of democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners.
A journalist for a local Moscow television and mother of three children, the 40-year-old woman had previously been elected member of the city council of Rjev, a town of 60,000 inhabitants north of the Russian capital.
In search of the fifth term
Political scientists argue that the current head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, who aspires to re-election – and whose popular initiative to promote the candidacy was registered in the CEC also on December 20 -, will receive on March 17, 2024 “a support level above 70%”while some predict that it will even exceed 2018’s 76.7%.
According to official findings in recent days, 80% of Russians approve of Putin’s managementwho has presided over the country since 2000, with a four-year hiatus (2008-2012) as prime minister.
Putin will seek his fifth term in the Kremlin in March. Photo: Yuri Kadobnov/AP.This Saturday the Fiera Russia party unanimously supported Putin’s candidacy for re-election. The 192 delegates present at the party’s federal congress voted in favor of the candidacy, a week after the United Russia party took the same step.
Despite the support of various parties, the Russian leader, in power since 2000, will run in the elections as an independent candidate.
The controversial constitutional reform of 2020 allows the current president to remain in office for two more terms of six years each, until 2036.
Source: Clarin
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