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An electrician became the 13th candidate for mayor of Moscow
An employee of MSTU "Stankin", 50-year-old electrician Alexander Gorlov became the 13th contender for the position of mayor of Moscow.
Gorlov is running in the elections as a self-nominated candidate, the Moscow City Election Commission told Interfax, and to register he will need to collect signatures from local deputies and voters.
On June 4, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that he was ready to resign as mayor of Moscow and participate in early elections for the head of the city. They will take place on September 8, until then Sobyanin and his colleagues will work in their places as acting officials.
13 candidates will compete with Sobyanin for the post of mayor of the capital, including member of the Coordination Council of the Opposition Alexei Navalny, leader of Metal Corrosion Sergei “Spider” Troitsky, leader of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin, State Duma deputy Mikhail Degtyarev - candidate from the LDPR, first deputy chairman State Duma Ivan Melnikov - candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, businessmen Igor Suzdaltsev and Ivan Karpushkin, unemployed Muscovite Alexey Denisov and others.