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“I don’t have the opportunity to become a candidate.” Ilya Yashin did not pass the municipal filter in the Moscow mayoral elections
The head of the council of deputies of the Krasnoselsky district, oppositionist Ilya Yashin admitted that he would not be able to register as a candidate for mayor of Moscow. about this He wrote on his Facebook.
According to Yashin, he could not pass the municipal filter. The politician enlisted the support of 91 municipal deputies, including non-partisans, members of Yabloko, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Just Russia. At the same time, representatives of United Russia refused to put signatures for the oppositionist. He stated that the party has "a direct ban from the authorities, who firmly decided not to let me through the filter."
Yashin abandoned the idea of a boycott of the elections and called for support for any candidate from the democratic opposition, if one of such candidates can achieve registration in the elections.
I have to confirm: I do not have the opportunity to become a candidate in these elections.
- Elections of the mayor of Moscow will be held on 9 September. In order to be admitted to them, a candidate must collect 110 signatures of municipal deputies, with at least one signature from representatives of each Moscow district. Only United Russia, which supports the incumbent mayor Sergei Sobyanin, has a sufficient number of municipal deputies.
- In addition to Yashin, another opposition politician, former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov, announced plans to participate in the elections. Previously, Gudkov and Yashin urged to choose a single candidate from the democratic opposition in the primaries, but they did not take place.