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In Moscow, a rally was held in support of independent election candidates
In the center of Moscow, on Sakharov Avenue, a rally agreed with the authorities was held in support of independent candidates not registered in the elections to the City Duma. Video broadcast of the event led Radio Liberty.
According to the "White Meter", about 22 thousand people took part in the event. The police counted about 12 thousand participants, the Moscow Says Radio Says . According to the ATS-Info, 5 people were detained.
Participants demanded that independent candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma. The event was performed by unregistered candidates and politician Alexei Navalny. He proposed to arrange a mass rally at the city hall building on July 27, making it unlimited if the candidates are still not registered.
Earlier, dozens of opposition and independent candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma announced that for political reasons they were not allowed to participate in the elections. In most cases, we are talking about the refusal of election commissions to accept voter signatures in support of the nomination.
From Sunday, inconsistent protests for prevented candidates passed in Moscow, the police did not disperse them. The Mosgorisburkom announced an attempt to illegal pressure on the polls, the press secretary of President Putin Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin would not intervene in the situation.
- Elections to the Moscow City Duma are scheduled for September 8th. In total, 45 deputies in single -mandate districts will be elected. To participate in the vote, candidates were not from parliamentary parties to collect several thousand signatures of voters registered in the districts where they are elected.
- Presumably , due to the low ratings of the party, did not nominate their deputies. All her candidates go as self -nominated.
- Among the candidates refused registration, Moscow deputies Ilya Yashin and Yulia Galyamin, employees of the Corruption Fund Lyubov Sobol and Ivan Zhdanov, politics Dmitry Gudkov and Sergey Mitrokhin.