"We have one president in our country"

Diegest of violations when collecting signatures in support of Putin, which is ignored by the CEC

The “Map of Violations”, launched by the Voice movement to the presidential election in March 2024, from the very beginning of the election campaign demonstrates dozens of violations throughout the country. On December 29, Voice called on the headquarters of Vladimir Putin, the presidential administration and heads of state authorities and local self -government "to stop the practice of coercion and illegal collection of signatures in support of its self -nomination." The movement also asked the CEC to “observe the principle of equality of the rights of candidates and the principle of impartiality in the activities of the election commission, and check the submitted signatures as thoroughly as it usually checks the documents of opposition candidates.”

Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, meanwhile, called for “gross violations of legislation, frank provocations and other hostile attempts to question the legitimacy of the elections of the President of Russia.” What violations in the collection of signatures in support of Putin are already known - in the review of Novaya Gazeta Europe.

Using an administrative resource for agitation for Putin

- On the eve of the New Year, Moscow mayor's mayor published a post on how he signed Putin's support.

“I fully support his decision to be elected for a new term. These days, as never before, we need stability. The president’s strategy allows the development of economics, social sphere, innovation. With his support, Moscow became one of the best megacities in the world, and we have big plans for the future, ”he wrote in a telegram channel.

In addition, the same post appeared on the website mos.ru.

- The governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz congratulated the inhabitants on New Year and Merry Christmas. In the same video, he supported Putin in the presidential election.

“The next one, 2024 will be a landmark for our country-we have to make a choice, which way to go. And the national leader leads along it, and we have one: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. A person who proved to the whole world that Russia cannot be broken, not bend, not to destroy. A person who united a multinational people who cannot be defeated, ”said the governor.

“The governor of the Ryazan region Pavel Malkov said in the official telegram channel that he had signed Putin,” the channel “Elections, all Tsyk!” Noted . Now there is no such post in the channel of Malkov.

- The speaker of the Saratov Regional Duma Mikhail Isaev campaigned for a candidate in Telegram.

“In the regional election headquarters, a candidate for the post of head of state Vladimir Putin left a signature in support of our president. Vladimir Vladimirovich is a strong and indisputable leader, a real patriot, under whose leadership Russia entered the five advanced countries of the world and goes its own independent and correct way, ”he wrote and posted the addresses of the points where you can leave the signature for Putin’s nomination.

According to Article 37 of Federal Law No. 67 “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in the Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation”, “The participation of state authorities, local authorities, organizations management bodies, regardless of the form of ownership, institutions, members of the election of a decisive vote in the collection of signatures, as well as the coercion of voters, referendum participants in the process of collecting signatures and their reward The signing is not allowed. ”

Representatives of the Saratov Regional Duma explained in the comments to the post that Isaev did not violate the law, since "he was not involved in the collection, and at time he left his signature in support."

-The head of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Mikhail Kotyukov on December 23 published a video in his telegram channel, in which he puts a signature for the current president.

He also attached a link to an interactive card to search for a subscribing to Putin’s collection points.

One of the activists of the initiative group of Ekaterina Duntsova received a response from the CEC regarding this case. The main argument of the commission is that the message of officials and administrations of the regions on Putin’s support is not election campaign, since it does not have signs that prompt voting for the candidate.

“Mikhail Mikhailovich Kotyukov as a citizen of the Russian Federation is not limited in personal and political rights, including freedom of speech, expressions of opinions, and in the right to disseminate his messages in any not prohibited legal way,” the answer says.

“In St. Petersburg, signatures in support of the nomination of Vladimir Putin were collected by the heads of precinct election commissions to the presidency,” the local publication Rotonda found out .

On January 10, in the Peter Rainbow shopping center, the heads of two precinct election commissions of the Moscow region stood behind the counter: Evgeny Pospelov from the PEC No. 1364 and Pavel Mikhailov from the PEC No. 1363.

Today, January 13, the St. Petersburg election commission confirmed that the signatures for Putin were collected illegally - representatives of the election commission could not do this.

After the publication of the Rotonta, the Gorizbarkom said that the collectors filed applications for the addition of authority in advance, but they could misinterprete the legislation. On the website of the territorial election commission No. 48, a document was published with information that Pospelov and Mikhailov were removed from the posts on January 11.

The St. Petersburg Electoral Commission told reporters to Zaks.ru that Pospelov and Mikhailov submitted applications on January 6. “According to personal delusion, perhaps due to the incorrect interpretation of the current electoral legislation, these persons believed that their status of the PEC members did not stop from the moment the TIK decision was made, but from the moment of the official submission of the application,” the press service of the mountainizburkom explained.

The chairman of the St. Petersburg election commission, Maxim Meyksin, in an interview with reporters, noted that the signatures collected by the heads of the PEC will be canceled in the Central Election Commission. “Secondly, as far as I know, the headquarters of candidates should also do such a preliminary check. I think that even these signatures will not reach the Central Election Commission, ”he added.

According to the Rotonta, at the time of the gathering of Pospelov and Mikhailov were not only the heads of PECs, but also the employees of the local administration of the municipality of Star. In 2021, they reported on their income at the posts of the head of the department of improvement and the chief specialist of the same department.

The Chairman of the Horiz Infantry said that the law prohibits participating in the collection of signatures to state authorities and local self -government, and not their employees. “There is no such ban. Moreover, the employee may be on vacation or collect signatures on non -working hours, ”Meixin explained.

The science of the electoral law, Vladimir Swede, noted that the “map of violations” of the Voice movement contains many signals throughout the country about agitation by the authorities of all levels for the current president.

“It seems that the flash mob has been launched, within which governors, deputies, mayors and heads of settlements compete, who is better, faster and stronger“ marked ”in the demonstration of their loyalty to the“ center ”,” the Swede describes what is happening.

He draws attention to the fact that often calls and reports of participation in the collection of signatures are published on the official websites of state authorities and local authorities, as well as on social networks of official accounts of these power institutions.

“These messages as a“ news occasion ”pick up the media at various levels and“ bring ”in the form of“ news ”to the audience,” he adds.

“Meanwhile, the district newspapers, which are financed from the Moscow budget, wrote the news about how the writer Sergei Lukyanenko supported Putin’s participation in the presidential election, ” said the telegram channel “Elections, all Tsyk!” On Friday January 13.

For example, this is what the news looks like on the site "My Cheryomushki":

“Fantast writer Sergei Lukyanenko expressed his support to the decision of the current president to nominate his election candidate in 2024. He announced this to reporters in Moscow on January 12. [...] He emphasized that in the current situation, our country was faced with huge international pressure. [...] In Moscow, the collection of signatures continues to support the nomination of Vladimir Putin as a candidate in the election of the President of Russia. For this, several dozen points of collection of signatures in shopping centers and other public places until the end of January work. "

- "Elections, all Tsyk!" He also noticed that the State Duma deputy from United Russia, Gennady Panin, was campaigning for Putin in his telegram channel. At the same time, he uses the video of the AIST TV company near Moscow. “And here, too, a whole bouquet of violations. Firstly, in the video there is no data that it is paid from the funds of the election fund. In addition, the terms for agitation through the channels of television and radio broadcasting begin 28 days before the date of voting, that is, no earlier than the middle of February, ”the telegram channel notes .

-From Thursday, military Z-channels distribute a video in support of the candidacy of Vladimir Putin in the presidential election.

According to the plot, a person in camouflage form, helmet and urine for voting, who are in the dugout, resorted to a dugout. The video ends with the response of one of the military about whom he voted: “We have one president in our country. And he said, Odessa is a Russian city. And I'm from Odessa. " In the final close -up, a portrait of Vladimir Putin is demonstrated.

The Voice movement believes that the video has signs of campaigning, so it must contain information, including about its manufacturer and election fund of the candidate who paid for the shooting (paragraph 2 of Article 54). Such a video cannot be shot and distributed as a private initiative, because according to the law, citizens can campaign for candidates only by methods that do not require financial costs, for example, verbally (paragraph 5 of Article 59). If financial costs were required to create the video, the money must be allocated only from the funds of the candidate’s election fund (paragraph 5 of Article 48).

The Voice said that such violations are punished with fines up to 20 thousand rubles for citizens, up to 50 thousand for officials, up to 500 thousand for legal entities.

“Agency” claims that the video deputy of the People’s Council of the “DPR” from “United Russia” Alexander Gridenko and three actors of the Donetsk Republican Academic Youth Theater (Donetsk Ramt) starred in the video. One of the actors, Dmitry Shtepa, told the “agency” that he was not filmed in the video, but the person recognition system used by the “agency” confirmed the opposite with a probability of 99.8%.