Candidates spent money on campaigning – Kommersant

At the end of last week, the Central Election Commission updated information on the movement of funds in the election accounts of presidential candidates. According to Sberbank, as of January 30, 11 campaign participants collected a total of 802.2 million rubles for their election funds, and spent 345.8 million.

The leadership still belongs to the current President Vladimir Putin, whose fund has reached the maximum allowable size by law of 400 million rubles. still at the beginning of the campaign. The candidate has already spent 126.2 million of them. The main expenses were for the production of propaganda, collection of signatures and “other works/services”, the contents of which are not deciphered in the certificate.

The remaining candidates are still significantly behind. Thus, LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky collected 101.5 million rubles, and spent 55 million – mainly on campaigning. Vice Speaker of the State Duma from the “New People” Vladislav Davankov raised 84 million rubles for his campaign. and spent 62 million, the most popular item of expenditure is the same – the production and distribution of propaganda materials. Boris Nadezhdin (Civil Initiative) is on a par with Mr. Davankov, who also collected 84 million rubles and spent 61.5 million, but his main expense item was collecting signatures.

The account of the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Nikolai Kharitonov received 52 million rubles, of which 36.2 million were spent. The leader of the Communists of Russia, Sergei Malinkovich, collected only 369 thousand rubles – and he has already spent all of them. Finally, the amounts in the accounts of self-nominees Anatoly Batashev and the Russian Rada, who have almost dropped out of the election race (they failed to collect the 300 thousand voter signatures required for registration), have not undergone significant changes over the past two weeks.

Let us remind you that to date the Central Election Commission has registered four presidential candidates: Leonid Slutsky, Vladislav Davankov, Nikolai Kharitonov and Vladimir Putin. Theoretically, Sergei Malinkovich and Boris Nadezhdin, who each submitted 100 thousand signatures to the Central Election Commission and are awaiting the results of their verification, could be added to them.

Anastasia Kornya