The Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission will meet with all nominees to the Moscow City Duma

Candidates for the Moscow City Duma who participated in the protest action on Sunday, July 14, have not yet been denied registration, said the chairman of the Moscow City Electoral Committee, Valentin Gorbunov, on the air of Ekho Moskvy. He is ready to meet with them today at 15.00 Moscow time in the presence of journalists.

Quote: “Today is Monday, a working day, everyone who wants can come. I will receive them all, well, half a day has already passed, while no one has come. If they come, I will accept them.”

• Gorbunov did not rule out that the verification of signatures of self-nominated candidates and candidates from non-parliamentary parties would be extended from 10 to 15 days. But he supported the tougher selection of candidates: they must collect signatures of 3% of all voters of the district in a month, that is, about 4.5-5 thousand pieces with an acceptable level of marriage of 10%.
• On Sunday, a protest rally near the building of the Moscow City Hall and the Moscow City Electoral Committee against the refusal to register independent candidates ended in arrests - both protesters and candidates Lyubov Sobol, Ilya Yashin and Ivan Zhdanov. paddy wagons and police departments . got into In total , 38 people
• Yashin wrote that he would come to a meeting with Gorbunov and put on the table "proof that the rejected signatures in my support are real."
• Sobol believes that the protests should be continued, and urged to gather at the Moscow City Electoral Committee on July 15 at 19.00 Moscow time.
• So far, the Moscow City Electoral Committee has formally denied registration to only nine applicants. There are no known independent candidates among them.
• However, Alexei Venediktov, deputy chairman of the Public Chamber of Moscow , learned that all self-nominated candidates in the 43rd district, including actor Andrei Sokolov, musician Sergei "Spider" Troitsky, Sergei Mitrokhin and Lyubov Sobol, would be denied registration. According to him, only representatives of parliamentary parties will remain on the list.
• The Moscow City Electoral Committee later confirmed that the marriage in Sobol's signatures was higher than allowed. Final decisions on registration will be made by district commissions on July 16.
• We wrote in detail about the election campaign to the Moscow City Duma and why it did not go the way the authorities expect, here .

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