Nadezhdin did not help Davankov with the program

Boris Nadezhdin did not meet with the presidential candidate from the “New People” Vladislav Davankov, the Agency learned. Prior to this meeting, Davankov, who is interested in Nadezhdin’s electorate, had previously postponed the publication of his election program. On Thursday, the program was published on Davankov’s website, but it has little in common with Nadezhdin’s theses.

Details. Davankov announced his intention to meet with Nadezhdin last Friday. “We have known each other for quite a long time, and I think that this week in Moscow we will discuss with him which blocks of his program can be included in mine, so we also moved the presentation date to February 15,” Davankov told Kommersant.

• The meeting announced by Davankov did not take place, Nadezhdin told the Agency. “I'm not ready yet. What if the Supreme Court reinstates me as a candidate,” Nadezhdin explained. He also hasn’t read Davankov’s program yet.

• In the program that Davankov posted on Thursday, the Agency did not find any borrowings from Nadezhdin’s program . The program says that Davankov dreams of a “peaceful and great Russia,” but considers peaceful negotiations with Ukraine “on our terms, and not a rollback,” possible. Nadezhdin’s program stated that “Russia must complete the NWO and begin peace negotiations with Ukraine and the West.”

• The candidates' theses also differ radically on domestic policy topics. Nadezhdin, in particular, proposes to abandon the use of electronic voting. And Davankov made one of the points of his program the introduction of a procedure for recalling governors, mayors and deputies through “State Services”.

• At the time of publication, Davankov did not respond to calls and messages from the Agency’s correspondent.

Context. Nadezhdin became the candidate who united the protest electorate in the presidential elections. According to a Russian Field survey commissioned by Nadezhdin’s headquarters, was ready to vote for him. every tenth voter who decided to participate in the elections

• But the Central Election Commission found a greater than acceptable percentage of defects in the nomination signatures submitted by the candidate and removed the candidate from the election. On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected two of Nadezhdin's three claims. The politician will file another lawsuit on Friday.

• Even at the stage of collecting signatures for Nadezhdin, Davankov took a step that could have given voters the impression that Nadezhdin was a candidate ideologically close to him. Davankov gave his signature for Nadezhdin’s nomination.

• Last week, the state-run VTsIOM published a poll that may indicate that the electorate, which previously was probably going to vote for Nadezhdin, has already partially flowed to Davankov. There is no independent confirmation of this information.