Russian anti-war presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin asks authorities for three more days to review claims of paperwork errors, Russia’s election commission gives him one more day
Update: The head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, said that the ruling on whether to allow Boris Nadezhdin to run in the presidential election would be moved to February 8. According to Pamfilova, election commission members made the decision in order to “show goodwill and take into account the requests of the remaining candidates who have been put forward but not yet registered.”
Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin, the only anti-war candidate in Russia’s upcoming presidential election, has asked the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) to postpone its final ruling on whether to allow his candidacy from February 7 to February 10. He shared his letter to the agency’s head, Ella Pamfilova, on Telegram.
“It’s absolutely impossible [for us] to review all of the comments left by the CEC in a single day, even if we work all night until the morning of February 7, 2024,” the document reads.
Nadezhdin said the deferral will allow his team to “examine the [CEC’s] complaints regarding the signatures and to better prepare our objections.”
Russian presidential candidates representing parties that aren’t represented in parliament are required to collect 100,000 signatures from supporters in order to join the race. On February 5, Nadezhdin reported that the CEC had rejected 15 percent of the 105,000 signatures that his campaign had submitted. For a candidate to officially run for president, no more than five percent of the signatures they submit can be declared invalid.
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