| Bashkortostan presidential candidate intends to sue Deprived of the opportunity to continue the fight for the post of President of Bashkiria, businessman Sergei Veremeenko is confident that the issue of his rehabilitation will be resolved within 20 days. Lawyers from the candidate's election headquarters intend to file a complaint against the local central election commission with the Supreme Court of Bashkiria.
Let us recall that on October 27, the Central Election Commission of Bashkiria refused to register the former head of Mezhprombank Sergei Veremeenko as a candidate for the post of president of the republic. The CEC motivated its decision by the fact that Mr. Veremeenko violated the established procedure for financing the election campaign. The reason for the close attention of the Central Election Commission to Mr. Veremeenko was the complaint of another candidate - the current representative of Bashkiria in the Federation Council, Igor Izmestyev. His headquarters presented materials to the Central Election Commission of the republic stating that Mr. Veremeenko committed numerous violations during the pre-election period. As the head of the information center of the Bashkir Central Election Commission, Rif Arslanov, told reporters, the senator’s statement indicated the illegal use of “additional” 13 million rubles by Sergei Veremeenko. for the election campaign. The senator also drew the attention of the Central Election Commission to Mr. Veremeenko’s incorrect use of his official position.
Nevertheless, at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday, Veremeenko said that he had no intention of withdrawing his candidacy from the elections. “If I give up the fight, then hundreds of thousands of people in Bashkiria who stand behind me will suffer,” he believes. Veremeenko's lawyer Grigory Tsuprik told reporters that the entrepreneur's supporters have strong arguments to protest the decision of the Bashkir election commission. “The possibilities of our opponents are not limitless,” he said. “We have quite serious and weighty arguments that will allow us to achieve a court decision in our favor.”
As Mr. Veremeenko admitted to journalists, he sees himself in the new role of “a single candidate from the opposition.” True, his “colleagues” in the elections (eight more people are vying for the post of head of the republic, not counting the current president Murtaza Rakhimov) do not yet support this point of view. And they intend to go to the polls on their own. The United Russia party, of which both Rakhimov and Veremeenko are members, has not yet announced its support to any of the candidates to the public. Daria GUSEVA |
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