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Ksenia Sobchak announced participation in the 2018 presidential election
The television journalist Ksenia Sobchak announced plans to run for the presidency of the Russian Federation in 2018. On October 18, her letter was published by the newspaper Vedomosti.
“Having realized all the risks and incredible difficulties of such a task, I decided that my participation in the presidential election could really be a step towards our country so necessary,” Sobchak said.
According to Sobchak, in the election she intends to act as "a candidate" against all "." The address of the site of her campaign - sobchakprotivvvseh.ru ; Sobchak2024.ru address is also registered.
“Are you against the fact that for many years only Zyuganov, Yavlinsky, Putin and their faceless understudies and deputies are on the list? Do you want to show your active position, but your candidate is prevented by the elections? Do you have your candidate? Mark Sobchak. You do not choose her for president. You just get a legal and peaceful opportunity to say “Enough! Got it!”, She explained.
The column “against all”, which since the mid-2000s has not been in the presidential election, Sobchak called “a legal and completely peaceful tool for expressing civil discontent, the election procedure, the composition of the participants, and the irremovability of power”.
Ksenia Sobchak also said that she did not consider the boycott of the elections “in case of refusal to register prominent opposition figures and, of course, primarily Alexei Navalny.” According to her, the refusal to participate in "controlled, imperfect, even dishonest elections" will not leave "no way out, except for street confrontation."
The Vedomosti website in the addresses of the pages indicates the dates of materials. In the address of the page with a letter Sobchak, this date is not on October 18 (2017/10/18), but on September 30 (2017/09/30). The editor -in -chief of Vedomosti Ilya Bulavinov told Medusa that "he could neither confirm nor refut" in this regard.
Contrary to the attempts of officials to compromise me and use for their own purposes, contrary to the attacks of some of my friends of the liberals, contrary to the speculations of sofa political scientists, my nomination can and should become useful for opposition and the whole society.
- The fact that Ksenia Sobchak can take part in the presidential election was the first to write the newspaper Vedomosti on September 1. The sources of the publication said that the Kremlin is considering the possibility of choosing a candidate-woman for the role of “sparring partner of the main candidate” (that is, Vladimir Putin).
- Sobchak herself did not confirm, but did not refute the possibility of participating in the elections.
- The possible advance of Sobchak to the presidency was criticized by oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who himself declared plans to run in this election (the CEC promised not to register it due to criminal record). Navalny said that the Kremlin needed a "caricature liberal candidate." “They will say: yes, we will not let Navalny, he is an extremist-apparatus, but do you need an opposition representative? Here you have Ksenia Sobchak, ”the politician said.