Summer residents who will be outside the city on election day will be able to vote in the Moscow region; special polling stations will be created for them / Yuri Smityuk/TASS

The Moscow City Duma has adopted a resolution on the appointment of the Moscow mayoral elections. The resolution must be officially published within five days, thus launching the election campaign. The capital's mayoral elections will take place on September 9. The resolution could have been adopted before June 10. Its adoption on June 2 gives candidates the opportunity to start their campaign a few days earlier, said Moscow City Duma deputy Alexander Semennikov.

Interfax, citing a source in the Moscow government, reported that the decision to schedule the elections would most likely be published on June 3. The election campaign would officially begin on that day.

A week ago, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin officially announced that he would participate in the elections. Earlier, former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov and head of the Krasnoselsky municipality Ilya Yashin announced their plans to participate in the mayoral elections. On June 4, the Yabloko party will determine in the second round of primaries who it will nominate in the mayoral elections. The two winners of the first round are the chairman of Moscow Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin and the head of the Tverskoy municipality Yakov Yakubovich. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation plans to nominate former State Duma deputy Vadim Kumin, and A Just Russia plans to nominate the head of the Tagansky municipality Ilya Sviridov. Journalist Anton Krasovsky also announced his intention to participate in the elections.

Summer residents will be able to vote for the mayor of Moscow at special polling stations

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In order to be registered for the elections, it will be necessary to pass the municipal filter - to collect at least one signature of a municipal deputy in 110 districts of the capital. The filter is controlled by United Russia; without its help in collecting signatures, no candidate except Sergei Sobyanin will be able to pass the municipal filter. Gudkov stated that he plans to take the signatures of 117 deputies to the Moscow City Electoral Commission and the mayor's office in order to exert "political pressure" on the mayor's office. However, the deputies supporting Gudkov represent only 62 districts of Moscow.

Before the current campaign, the Moscow City Duma adopted amendments to the current electoral legislation. In particular, Muscovites will be able to vote in the mayoral elections until 10 p.m., and not until 8 p.m., as before. This was done so that residents of the capital returning from their summer cottages would have time to vote, Moscow authorities explained the meaning of the bill. Summer residents who will be outside the city on the day of voting will be able to vote in the Moscow region; special polling stations will be created for them. The "Mobile Voter" technology was tested in the presidential elections, when any Russian could vote at their location, and not at their place of registration, having notified about it in advance. Also, the number of signatures for mayoral candidates who are self-nominated was halved: now they need to provide the Moscow City Electoral Commission with the signatures of just over 36,000 Muscovites.

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