The Central Election Commission will verify the signatures of the remaining presidential candidates by February 7 – Kommersant

At a meeting on February 7, the Russian Central Election Commission intends to make a decision on all remaining candidates who have declared their desire to participate in the campaign for the 2024 presidential elections in the Russian Federation, said the head of the commission, Ella Pamfilova.

“It is quite possible that on the 7th we can complete this stage of the election campaign, and for all our nominated candidates we can make and approve decisions that will clearly, purely correspond to the material, the conclusions that we have made,” said Mrs. Pamfilova during a meeting of the Central Election Commission (quote from Interfax).

According to her, CEC members “have full confidence” that the verification of the signatures of all remaining self-nominated candidates and representatives of non-parliamentary parties will be completed before February 5. “On this day we will notify all candidates about the results of checking their signatures,” the head of the Central Election Commission emphasized.

During the meeting, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev said that in the signature sheets that Boris Nadezhdin (Civil Initiative) and Sergei Malinkovich (Communists of Russia) submitted for nomination as candidates for the presidential election, the Central Election Commission found errors that “cause surprise.” Candidates will be told in detail about the shortcomings in signatures on February 5, he noted. The decision on registration or refusal to register these candidates (as well as beauty blogger Rada Russkikh and environmental blogger Anatoly Batashev) will be made before February 7, Mr. Bulaev clarified.

By the evening of January 31, the Central Election Commission registered four presidential candidates: Leonid Slutsky (LDPR), Nikolai Kharitonov (KPRF), Vladislav Davankov (New People) and Vladimir Putin (self-nominated). The signatures submitted to the Central Election Commission by Boris Nadezhdin, Sergei Malinkovich and the Russian Rada, which is running for elections as a self-nomination, are now at the verification stage.

From participation in the election race on January 31 refused Andrey Bogdanov (Russian Party of Freedom and Justice). Self-nominated Anatoly Batashev brought five boxes of signatures to the CEC, admitted that this was not enough, but left the decision to the commission. On January 30, the chairman of the Russian People’s Union party, Sergei Baburin, withdrew his candidacy. Irina Sviridova, nominated by the non-parliamentary Democratic Party of Russia didn’t collect required 100 thousand signatures.

About preparations for the elections – in the material “Kommersant” “Who signed up to volunteer.”

Alexander Kislov