The YABLOKO party submitted to electoral commissions
the required signatures for registration in election campaign
in 13 regions. According to Russian law, YABLOKO as a non-parliamentary
party must collect signatures from its electorate in support
of its candidates to get registered in election campaigns.
YABLOKO is going to participate in regional parliamentary
elections in the Kaliningrad, Kursk and Tambov regions, to
the city assemblies of the capitals of the Vladimir and Saratov
regions, the Stavropol Area and the Republic of Komi. In total
the party nominated candidates to run in parliamentary and
municipal elections in 15 regions.
At the stage of collection of signatures YABLOKO has already
got “presents” from the ruling party. Thus, the Stavropol
Legislative Assembly set an order, according to which all
the non-parliamentary parties should complete collection of
signatures four days prior the date when they should be submitted
to the electoral commission (i.e. January 22 instead of January
26).
Such a restriction violates the federal law on the basic
guarantees of franchise for the citizens.
However, this allowed to the ruling party to toughen the conditions
for those parties that failed to get into the State Duma (the
Russian parliament). However, The Stavropol YABLOKO managed
to collect the required 6,000 signatures by January 22.
In the Kaliningrad, Kursk and Tambov regions YABLOKO submitted
the required number of signatures (10,000 signatures in the
Kaliningrad and Tambov regions each and over 22,000 in the
Kursk region).
Now electoral commissions should within a week to take a
decision on registration of the party in the campaigns.
YABLOKO’s branches also submitted signatures for registration
in the campaigns in Kaliningrad, Stavropol and Oryol, as well
as Kolchyuginsky areas of the Vladimir region.
Candidates in single-mandate electoral districts who will
run for deputies of city assemblies in Ekaterinburg, Khanti-Mnsiisk
and Roslavl (Smolensk region) also submitted the required
signatures on time.
YABLOKO’s candidates are already registered to run for deputies
of the city assemblies in Petrozavodsk, Chelyabinsk and Livna
(Oryol region).
Signatures for registration of the party at election to the
city assembly of Syktivkar and Saratov will be submitted on
January 31.
See also:
Regional
Elections 2011
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