Employees of Nadezhdin’s headquarters were searched in Stavropol

In the Stavropol region, signature collectors for the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin for the presidency of Russia have been searched for several days. Earlier, the headquarters of the unregistered candidate reported on the organization of exit polls at the exits from the polling stations in Stavropol, notes Kavkaz.Realii.

One of the organizers of the collection of signatures for Nadezhdin in the region reported on the conditions of anonymity about the searches of the activists. Employees of the “E” center conducted seven searches. The last of them passed on the morning of March 14 at the signature collector from Mineralnyh Vody.

One of the activists in Essentuk was visited by law enforcement officers twice – on March 8 and March 12. On the last of these days, investigative actions were also carried out at the second collector of signatures in Essentuki, as well as two people from Kislovodsk and Mykhaylovsk.

Another search took place on March 13 at a signature collector in Zheleznovodsk – she was registering for the elections as an observer. The activists refused to show the decree and name the grounds for the search. The phone was seized from an employee of the headquarters in Mykhailovsk. According to the interlocutor, the searches were “conducted correctly, without violence” in all cases. The organizer of the signature collection links pressure from power structures to the authorities’ demand to “repress the desire to observe the elections.”

Stavropol became one of three cities in southern Russia where Nadezhdin’s headquarters announced exit polls at the exits from polling stations. In addition to Stavropol, they are also organized in the Kuban region – in Krasnodar and Novorossiysk.

• Voting in the presidential elections of Russia will take place from March 15 to 17, 2024. Elections in Russia are assessed by independent observers and experts as not free and dishonest. The authorities regularly intervene in the electoral process, make access to the opposition more difficult, create advantages for pro-power candidates, and in some cases outright falsifications are involved.
• The campaign to collect signatures for the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin was actively held in southern Russia and the North Caucasus in January. Collectors were detained in Krasnodar and Volgograd.
• Nadezhdin directly took an anti-war position. The politician managed to collect more than 200,000 signatures from Russians in support of his candidacy, but the CEC refused him registration, citing an unacceptably high percentage of incomplete signatures. Boris Nadezhdin tried to challenge the decision of the Central Election Commission, but the courts, including the Supreme Court, refused to grant the claim.