The CEC registered Slutsky as a candidate for the presidency of Russia

The Central Election Commission registered Leonid Slutsky, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, and Vladyslav Davankov, State Duma vice-speaker, as candidates for the post of President of Russia.

Slutsky is the chairman of the LDPR, and Davankov is a candidate from the “New People” party. Since both are representatives of parliamentary parties, they did not need to collect voter signatures for registration as candidates.

The CEC also registered the proxies of the chairman of the Communist Party of Russia, Sergei Malinkovich – on December 28, party members nominated him as a candidate for the presidential election. Since he is a candidate from a non-parliamentary party, he must provide 100,000 signatures of Russians by January 31.

• At the end of December, the CEC did not allow Rzhev journalist Ekaterina Duntsova to collect signatures in support of her self-nomination for the post of president. It was claimed that more than a hundred errors were found in her documents.
• Soon after that, the CEC registered a list of Vladimir Putin’s proxies in the Russian presidential election. The collection of signatures in support of his self-nomination began on December 23. According to the law, a self-nominated candidate must collect 300,000 signatures to register as a candidate in the elections.
• The CEC of Russia decided to hold presidential elections within three days – from March 15 to March 17 next year.