The Central Election Commission refused to register Malinkovych as a candidate for the presidential elections

The candidate from the Communists of Russia, Sergei Malinkovich, had 96,019 of 104,998 thousand signatures recognized as valid, 8,979 invalid, the Russian Central Election Commission reported. This is more than the acceptable marriage threshold, which is 5%, and therefore Mr. Malinkovich was denied registration for the presidential elections.

“The decision has been made,” its chairman Ella Pamfilova said at the commission meeting.

Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev said that eight signatures of deceased people were found in the signatures in support of Malinkovich. “These facts indicate that the people who worked on compiling the lists – well, this is clear to me, this is not the first time I collected these lists – this means that the old database was used to falsify voter signatures. These are old databases. Moreover, if we get the date when he died, we will see that all these people died in December and January,” said Mr. Bulaev.

Mr. Malinkovych said at the Central Election Commission that he would not challenge the commission’s decision, since “at the moment our country is going through, it would be unconstructive.”

Candidate for the presidential election of the “Civil Initiative” Boris Nadezhdin recognized 9,147 signatures are invalid. 95,587 signatures out of 104,734 were recognized as reliable. He proposed that the Central Election Commission postpone the decision on registration until February 10 to continue checking the signatures.

Previously, the CEC registered four presidential candidates: Leonid Slutsky (LDPR), Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party), Vladislav Davankov (New People) and Vladimir Putin (self-nominated).

What violations did the Central Election Commission find in the documents of two presidential candidates – in the Kommersant publication “The signatures did not come out in handwriting”.

Victoria Kolganova