The CEC approved the signatures collected by Prokhorov

The Central Election Commission approved the signature sheets in support of the presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov. According to RIA Novosti, the percentage of marriage in the signatures for Prokhorov amounted to 4.38 percent with a permissible rate of 5 percent. According to the secretary of the cycle Nikolai Konkin, Prokhorov will be registered by the candidate on January 25-26.

In the signatures for Gregory, the Yavlinsky CEC found more than 23 percent of the marriage. In the signatures for Dmitry Mezentsev, marriage amounted to about 10 percent. According to the law, the first sample for verification amounted to 20 percent of the collected signatures, each of the candidates-nominates presented from 2 to 2.1 million voter signatures.

Mezentsev will be denied registration, as the remaining signatures are minus the discovered marriage of less than 2 million. In the case of Yavlinsky, a re -check of 200 thousand signatures will be carried out. According to Kommersant, the main claim to Yavlinsky - photocopies are presented instead of the originals of signature sheets.

Earlier, a member of the CEC Elena Dubrovina said that a second sample would also be held on Mezentsev. According to Dubrovina, the parties and groups supporting the self -nominated people have the right to come to the CEC and prove that the recruitment of signatures was carried out poorly. “We are all people, we can be mistaken,” said Dubrovina.

Errors in the paperwork in the CEC were identified already during their reception on January 18. According to Konkin, it was “not very high -quality”, as a result of which the commission accepted 2 million 41 thousand signatures from Prokhorov instead of the declared 2 million 79 thousand, Mesentsev had 2 million 6 thousand instead of 2 million 66 thousand, and Yavlinsky had 2 million 86 thousand.

Mezentsev was accused of “painting” the signatures of his support at the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers, and the leadership of the Sverdlovsk Railway sent a letter to industrial enterprises asking for “ensuring the necessary collection of signatures” in support of the candidate.

“This is a political issue. Such a decision is made by Putin, not a CEC. Yavlinsky will be removed, because the Kremlin decided to put a controlled candidate for a democratic electorate. And this is not Yavlinsky, but Prokhorov,” the chairman of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, assessed the situation. “The signature verification is arranged in such a way that if there is a political decision on the signatures, you can cut down anyone,” says Andrei Buzin, the head of the interregional association of voters.

While the CEC has registered candidates from parliamentary parties: Vladimir Putin from United Russia, Gennady Zyuganov from the Communist Party, Sergey Mironov from Fair Russia and Vladimir Zhirinovsky from the LDPR. The presidential elections are scheduled for March 4.