Putin met with the head of the CEC Pamfilova

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting in Sochi with Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Ella Pamfilova, should from a message on the Kremlin website.

Pamfilova was informed by the president about the preparations for the election campaign. According to her, the work is “in full swing, in the normal mode and at this moment without any kind of failure.” The Chairperson assured Putin that the CEC continues to uphold the principle of maximum transparency and openness of elections. “I want to honestly say that this transparency and openness is an order of magnitude higher than in those unfriendly countries that consider themselves democratic. It’s true,” she said.

On a single voting day on September 11, 2022 in Russia, direct elections of governors will be held in 14 subjects. August 8 at the CEC completed registration of candidates for elections of heads of regions. As Pamfilova reported, out of 75 applicants who brought documents for registration, only four were refused. The rejection rate, therefore, turned out to be unprecedentedly low and amounted to 5.3% after 20% in 2021 and 34% in 2020. The remaining 13 of the originally declared 88 applicants did not bring documents for registration. As a result, the competition in the elections of senior officials (HDL) will average five contenders per seat, the CEC chairman concluded.

As for the results of registration in regional legislative assemblies, here the percentage of refusals was less than 5% (42 lists of candidates, two refusals). In single-member constituencies, this figure was 2% (826 candidates from 12 parties and 24 self-nominees, 17 applicants were rejected).