The court overturned the decision of the Council of Deputies to hold “Free Election Day” in Moscow

Following the prefecture and the prosecutor's office, the Moscow City Court ruled to "ban" the holiday "Day of Free Elections" on December 24 in Moscow. about this on Facebook writes Ilya Yashin, head of the council of deputies of the Krasnoselsky municipal district, . Deputy of the Krasnoselsky municipal district from United Russia Alevtina Bazeeva asked the court to cancel the decision of the council of deputies to hold the "Day of Free Elections" because it was not published and did not enter into force. about it RBC writes .

“Back in 2016, the list of local holidays for the current year was approved by the former composition of deputies. At one of the last meetings of the council, in violation of the agenda, the issue of including the Day of Free Elections holiday in Lermontov Square near the Krasnye Vorota metro station was considered in this list. The decision to enter into force was to be published in the municipal bulletin, which was not done, ” quotes Bazeeva. Interfax

Politician Ilya Yashin says that “the judge ignored all our arguments and, with a bored look, decided to ban it. The entire review took less than an hour.

“The court invalidated line 6, annex to the decision of the council, from November 28. Thus, the claim was granted. To say that the court forbade is incorrect. The court only checked the legality of making these changes to the previously approved list of festive events,” said court spokeswoman Ulyana Solopova.

On December 24, Ilya Yashin was going to hold a regional holiday "Day of Free Elections". To do this, he sent a letter to the prefecture of the Central Administrative District with information about the holiday (according to the law, a deputy should not go through the procedure for coordinating a regional holiday).

The prefecture stated that the event needed to be coordinated and sent corresponding letters to Yashin and at the same time to the prosecutor's office. Ilya Yashin also complained there, about the illegal, in his opinion, actions of the prefecture of the Central Administrative District.

Later, the Meshchanskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow sent Yashin a notice about the inadmissibility of holding an "unauthorized rally" in the form of a district holiday "Day of Free Elections".

After that, Yashin filed a complaint with the Tagansky District Court of Moscow against Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

On December 24, the Moscow Mayor's Office agreed on a rally by Dmitry Gudkov. On December 20, Gudkov withdrew the application.