Russian warfare critic Nadezhdin submits bid to problem Putin for presidency | EUROtoday
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Russian anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin stated on Wednesday he had submitted 105,000 signatures in his help to the Central Election Commission (CEC) to underpin his bid to problem Vladimir Putin in an upcoming presidential election.
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The CEC will test the authenticity and high quality of the signatures submitted by Nadezhdin and different would-be candidates and announce subsequent month who will be a part of Putin on the poll paper.
Putin’s victory is broadly seen as a foregone conclusion, however Nadezhdin has stunned some observers with trenchant criticism of what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.
After a collection of heating outages throughout Russia throughout an unusually chilly winter, Nadezhdin stated earlier this month that the nation would have the ability to afford to spend extra on its residents if it was not pouring a lot cash into the army.
As a candidate nominated by a political celebration, he wanted to collect 100,000 signatures throughout no less than 40 areas so as to stand within the March 15-17 election.
Putin, who has chosen to run as an impartial fairly than because the candidate of the ruling United Russia celebration, wants 300,000 signatures however has already collected over 3.5 million, in keeping with his supporters.
(Reuters)
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