The candidate of "Fair Russia" in the President of the Russian Federation in 2018 may become a woman, learned "Vedomosti"

The Fair Russia party, led by Sergei Mironov, can nominate not his leader to the presidential election, but a candidate-woman, the newspaper Vedomosti writes.

Mironov himself does not really want to go to the polls and talked about the nomination of the deputy chairman of the State Duma Olga Epifanova , a source in the party told the publication.

As other candidates, the interlocutors of the publication are called Oleg Shein, Alexander Burkov and Valery Kartung. Experts note that a woman’s nomination for Socialist Revolutionaries is the best option. It gives the party the opportunity to stand out from the general row and get a 5% plus bonus on the vote according to the gender principle, says political scientist Konstantin Kalachev.

The nomination of the male candidate, in his opinion, is fraught with claims of leadership in the party, and the nomination of Mironov himself is like political suicide.

In the Kremlin, commenting on the possible nomination of a woman as a presidential candidate, they referred to a constitution, according to which the floor of the candidate does not play any role. “Here the answer is very simple: the Constitution of the Russian Federation clearly describes who can be a presidential candidate. There is no division for women and men,” said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the head of state (quote for Interfax ).

Olga Epifanova -State Duma deputy, ex-Business trips, the party’s official website reports. One of the leading Pomerania business women, the creator of the perfume and cosmetic empire "Shik" and, according to some reports, almost the richest woman in the region, reports the site 29.ru.

After being elected to the State Duma of the seventh convocation, she was read the post of vice-speaker of the Russian parliament. In March 2013, Epifanova was in the spotlight of the media in connection with the conflict with volunteers. It was also reported that she voted for a scandalous ban on the adoption of Russian children by Americans (information about this was preserved on the website of the lower house).

The presidential election will be held in 2018. The day before, several Russian media at once, citing anonymous sources in the Kremlin, reported that the elections will be held on March 11, 2018.

The United Russia party has already identified problematic topics that can occur during the election debate of united Russia with opponents. Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet made any statements regarding his participation in the upcoming elections of the head of state. However, the Kremlin counts on a high turnout and the 70 percent result of their candidate. This was stated in December last year, deputy head of the administration of the head of state Sergei Kiriyenko.

"Vedomosti" write that so far only the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky announced from the Duma opposition about the decision to run. In addition, it was previously reported that another veteran of Russian policy intends to participate in the elections - the leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky .

The oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who was the other day, evenopened the pre -election headquarters in Novosibirsk, has also been announced recently by the Presidential ambitions.