Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) denied journalist Yekaterina Duntsova the opportunity To as a candidate for the country's presidencyon the grounds that the documents she submitted contained errors.
“We found errors in the candidate's documents,” a commission representative said during a meeting broadcast live online, quoted by EFE.
According to the Russian electoral authority, the documents submitted by Duntsova contained up to a hundred errors, including some typos in the first and last names of several members of her support group.
On December 17th Duntsova received the support of 521 of the more than 700 participants at an independent congress in Moscow. In mid-November, the journalist announced her election plans, arguing that “the country has been moving in the wrong direction over the last decade,” a path that, in her opinion, leads to “self-destruction.”
Among other suggestions The journalist advocates a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine and the introduction of democratic reforms in Russia and the release of political prisoners.
The 40-year-old mother of three had previously been elected as a member of the municipal council of Rjev, a small town of 60,000 people north of the Russian capital.
The Putin-critical industry sees the journalist's election campaign as torpedoed Proof that no one with a real chance of winning can stand in the Russian elections, the first presidential elections since the start of the war in Ukraine.
For many Russian sectors, the elections are a false process in which the only possible outcome will be in favor of Putin.
This was currently reported by the President of the CEC, Ela Pamfilova 29 people aspire to run in the Russian presidential electionswhich will take place from March 15th to 17th, 2024.
This Saturday, the Fair Russia party unanimously endorsed Putin's candidacy for re-election. The United Russia party did the same a week earlier.
Despite the support of various parties, the president will run in the elections as an independent candidate.
According to official Russian government polls conducted in recent days, 80% of citizens support Putin's leadership, who has headed this country since 2000, with a four-year break (2008-2012). During this time he held the office of Prime Minister because the constitution prohibited him from serving a third term, but he retained his political power.
A constitutional reform in 2020 will allow Putin two more terms of six years each, until 2036.