The Supreme Court ruled that Nadezhda’s refusal to register was legal

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized as legal the refusal of the Central Election Commission to register Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate for the presidency of Russia. This is reported by TASS.

The decision can be appealed in the appellate instance. Nadezhdin has already promised to file a complaint within five days.

The CEC had earlier denied Nadezhda registration, declaring invalid about 15% of the signatures collected in her support, verified by the commission, with a permissible 5% defect.

As noted by “We can explain”, the meeting lasted almost 10 hours. 12 witnesses appeared, whose signatures the CEC deemed invalid – they assumed that they had indeed left signatures for the candidate. However, the court did not listen to their words.

Nadezhdin himself did not come to the meeting. Earlier, he announced in his Telegram channel that he and his family had gone on vacation abroad “to one of the Asian countries.” Nadezhdin wrote that the trip had been planned for a long time.

Earlier, the Supreme Court rejected two more claims of the politician to the CEC. One of them concerned disputing the form of the list of signature collectors, the second – disputing the form of the list.

• Boris Nadezhdin was the only candidate for the post of president of Russia who took an anti-war position and opposed the policies of the current president, Vladimir Putin. His campaign attracted attention after large queues of people wishing to submit signatures began to form at his headquarters. Nadezhdin’s headquarters claim that they have collected more than 200,000 signatures, and submitted a little more than 100,000 signatures to the CEC, as required by law. On February 8, the CEC refused to register Nadezhda, finding more than 15% defects in her signatures compared to the permissible 5%.
• For many years, electoral experts have criticized the collection of signatures as a basis for admission to elections because of the possibility of removing a candidate for formal reasons.
• 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 intervene in the electoral process, create advantages for pro-power candidates. In some cases, we are talking about direct falsifications.