And from the platform they say ...

On September 12, the Supreme Court will consider a lawsuit to remove the federal Parnas list from the elections to the State Duma. This was reported by the press service of the party.

"Parnassus received a ruling of the Supreme Court of September 8, according to which the Supreme Court accepted the proceedings and initiated an administrative case against the party and the CEC in connection with the claim of the Civil Platform party," the statement states that individual statements of the party leader Mikhail Kasyanov, made during the debate, are extremist.

The Civil Platform states that Kasyanov publicly obviously falsely accused President Putin of promoting Bashar Assada of the use of chemical weapons against him against the civilian population of Syria, ”the press service said. The statement of the Civil Platopom is also called extremist a series of statements by Vyacheslav Maltsev and Andrei Zubov, which occupy in the general federal part of the list Parnasa is the second and third line.

"The legal service Parnassus is currently studying the materials received and is preparing the party's objections on the merits of the claim for the meeting of the Supreme Court," the party noted.

In 2012, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov created and headed the Civil Platform. In May 2014, he gave the post of head of the party to Rifata Shaikhutdinov, a former deputy from the LDPR. Then the party began to support the policy of the Russian authorities.

In March 2015, Prokhorov said that he was leaving all the bodies of the Civil Platform due to the deviation of the party from the initial course and the participation of its representatives in the anti-Ukrainian rally of Antimaydan . In addition, he suggested that the Political Committee recommend the party to make a decision either to change the name or on liquidation.