
More than a thousand residents of Moscow wrote statements with the requirements to recognize their signatures in support of opposition candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma. This was written by Kommersant with reference to 11 candidates who collected statements by Muscovites.
The statements of the townspeople were received by Ilya Yashin, Konstantin Yankauskas, Dmitry Gudkov, Lyubov Sobol and other candidates.
According to the member of the Moscow City Writing of Dmitry Reut, the commission recognizes the signatures reliable if it turns out that they were rejected unreasonably.
Earlier, district election commissions of Moscow refused to register 57 candidates. Since July 14, opposition candidates daily hold protests in Moscow, demanding them to be allowed before the elections to the Moscow City Duma. Love Sobol announced a hunger strike.