The Supreme Court rejected Nadezhdin’s claim to deny registration as a presidential candidate

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized as legal the decision of the Central Election Commission to refuse to register politician Boris Nadezhdin, who was nominated from the Civil Initiative party, as a presidential candidate. Thus, the court rejected the politician’s third claim. Mr. Nadezhdin reported in Telegram, which is appealing the decision of the Supreme Court. The court will consider complaints regarding his two previous claims on February 26, he added.

How it conveys Interfax from the courtroom, representatives of Mr. Nadezhdin pointed out errors and procedural violations that, in the plaintiff’s opinion, were made during the verification of signatures. They emphasized that, following the results of the audit, the Central Electoral Commission did not recognize a single signature as forged – the commission’s claims were related only to the collection procedure and the order of registration of signatures. According to Mr. Nadezhdin, this can be called chicanery, the agency reports the words of his representatives.

Representatives of the Central Election Commission and the prosecutor’s office stated in court that the commission’s decision to refuse to register the politician was legal, Interfax reports. “The check, which was carried out by the Central Election Commission, shows that the submitted signature sheets are chicanery,” said a CEC representative.

According to the agency, during the hearing the court questioned 13 witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff, among whom were collectors of signatures and signatories whose signatures were declared invalid. In court, they confirmed the authenticity of the data they left. The defendant’s witnesses were a handwriting expert from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the deputy head of the Institute of Forensics of the FSB Center for Special Equipment, who participated in the development of a methodology for checking signature sheets, Interfax reports.

February 17 became It is known that Boris Nadezhdin filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Russia to challenge the decision of the Central Election Commission to refuse to register him as a presidential candidate. On February 8, the Central Election Commission refused to register Mr. Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate. Based on the results of checking 105 thousand signatures that the politician submitted to the Central Election Commission, the Central Election Commission commission considered 9,147 signatures invalid and 95,587 signatures valid.

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