The Moscow City Court reinstated parliamentary candidates previously removed from the elections for illegal campaigning

On August 30, the Moscow City Court overturned the decision of the Koptevsky District Court to deregister Andrey Simonov-Yarkov, Andrey Natalchuk, Tatyana Agafonova-Lenskaya, Natalya Nikolenko and Anton Chernykh, candidates for municipal deputies of the Koptevo district, from registration. about this on Facebook Politician Dmitry Gudkov writes , the information is confirmed by Viktor Vorobyov.

On August 28, it was reported that the head of the territorial election commission sent to court and achieved the removal of five candidates for deputies from the electoral race. The reason was the appearance of propaganda posters at the stand of one of the management companies of the district.

Lawyers insisted on the absurdity and illegality of the court's decision to withdraw from the election: the declared article (Part 1.1, Article 55 of the Electoral Code of Moscow) did not provide for such a sanction at all, and the deadline for removing a candidate from the election had passed.

As Gudkov writes, on August 29, “because of this story, the head of the Koptevo electoral committee was removed from his post, and he went to court demanding to remove the candidates.”