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13 people per seat
The Central Election Commission has certified all party lists of candidates for the future State Duma
The first stage of the election race can be considered successfully completed: the Central Election Commission has completed the certification of the electoral lists of political parties and is moving on to their registration. This was stated yesterday by the chairman of the commission, Vladimir Churov (pictured) . From this moment on, parties can no longer make changes to their lists. But the Central Election Commission may not approve them yet. The list of United Russia was the last to be certified yesterday.In total, 14 parties out of 15 registered by the Ministry of Justice declared their intention to participate in the elections (the Party of the Revival of Russia of Gennady Seleznev refused to independently fight for the people's love, disappearing into the list of "Patriots of Russia" of Gennady Semigin). United Russia, considered the favorite in the election race, submitted its list of candidates to the CEC on the last day allowed by law, October 5. At yesterday's meeting this list was officially certified.
CEC member Igor Borisov noted that the United Russia list turned out to be exemplary in its own way: “At the stage of checking documents for certification, not a single candidate was excluded from the list, which is a kind of record today.” Of the nominees of other parties, 449 people did not undergo the certification procedure for various reasons. At the same time, United Russia predictably nominated more candidates than any other party - 600 people. This is the maximum permissible number of candidates for 450 Duma seats. Of these, 52 candidates are not members of United Russia, and eight are self-nominated candidates.
The possibility of self-nomination of a citizen on the list of a party of which he is not a member is being introduced for the first time in this election cycle to compensate for the liquidated institution of single-mandate seats. Speaking about the status of United Russia's most important non-party candidate, the head of the Central Election Commission yesterday once again emphasized that the law does not require Russian President Vladimir Putin to either go on vacation during the election campaign or temporarily resign as president.
In total, at this stage, 5,791 candidates are allowed to compete for recognition by the electorate. Thus, the competition for the lower house of parliament in this political season amounts to almost 13 candidates for a deputy mandate.
Of the 14 participating parties, only three will not need to collect the signatures of 200 thousand supporters or scrape together 60 million rubles to support their lists. for an electoral deposit. We are talking about United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party, which entered the State Duma in 2003 and thereby proved their political worth.
Three more parties, according to Vladimir Churov, have already paid a deposit, and “up to five parties have expressed their intention to collect signatures.” However, the head of the Central Election Commission refused to name them, citing the fact that “this is preliminary information.” Later, the press service of the Central Election Commission reported that the bail was provided by A Just Russia, the Union of Right Forces and Patriots of Russia.
Mr. Churov also noted that all election participants “will have to work on their documents,” but emphasized that we are talking about purely technical issues, and it’s even “embarrassing to talk about them, they are so insignificant.” For example, the abbreviation “s.” requires decoding. in the “place of birth” column - a village, village or station. As for more significant corrections, the CEC, in accordance with the law, sent lists of candidates for verification to the tax, migration services and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but no response information has yet been received from there.
This is quite natural, since the verification and official registration of candidate lists by the Central Election Commission will continue until October 28. After this, places on the ballot and free airtime for election campaigning will be allocated. The commission was supposed to approve the draft procedure for drawing lots for free airtime yesterday, but at the insistence of Central Election Commission member Lyudmila Demyanchenko, this issue was removed from the agenda as “requiring improvement.”