The Central Election Commission (CEC) has decided that Boris Nadezhdin, the rival of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is not permitted to participate in the upcoming March election. Undeterred by the decision, Nadezhdin has promised to file an appeal with the nation\u2019s highest court, contesting the reasons behind the denial of his candidature.<\/p>\n
The CEC pointed to errors in the signatures that Nadezhdin and his supporters gathered to back his candidature. According to the commission, there were discrepancies in some of the signatures, and astonishingly, some of them were purportedly signed by people who had passed away. However,\u00a0Nadezhdin angrily refutes these accusations, insisting that the procedure of gathering signatures was carried out honestly and transparently.<\/p>\n
Nadezhdin stated that he disagreed with the CEC\u2019s decision and that he was determined to pursue his presidential campaign in a statement that was uploaded on Telegram.<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old lawmaker shocked observers by calling the Kremlin\u2019s \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine a \u201cfatal mistake\u201d and promising to pursue talks to put an end to the hostilities. Nadezhdin\u2019s vocal position on the Ukrainian situation had drawn notice, even in the face of the consensus that Putin would win.<\/p>\n
Nadezhdin\u2019s role as a credible rival of Putin, however, was minimised by the Kremlin. Putin is well-versed in the means of state control, having held the position of President or Prime Minister since 1999. The disqualification of Nadezhdin from the contest calls into question both the accessibility of the voting process and the degree of political competition in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Putin\u2019s opponent Boris Nadezhdin was disqualified from the March election by the Central Election Commission due to signature irregularities. With a commitment to appeal, Nadezhdin questions the decision\u2019s transparency and raises questions about the competitiveness of Russia\u2019s political environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":14104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7558,9191,468,9192,5168,877,78,4962,215,283],"class_list":["post-14103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-boris-nadezhdin","tag-central-election-commission-cec","tag-kremlin","tag-march-election","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-russia","tag-telegram","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}