| YABLOKO began its campaign for collecting signatures
by the State Duma and the Kremlin. Sergei Mitrokhin also participated
in the action in Moscow. The activists managed to collect
150 signatures from people from over ten Russian regions within
an hour. This was not an easy task as most of the people there
were guests from other countries and Russian citizens were
reluctant to give their passport data required by law.
The police did not interfere this time, as after the threats
from the policemen to stop an unsanctioned picket YABLOKOs
leader Sergei Mitrokhin had sent a telegramme to head of the
Central Electoral Commission Vladimir Churov informing the
latter of such grave violation of the law by the police. Churov
had to explain to police that collecting of signatures for
parties registration in the parliamentary campaign does not
require any permissions from the authorities.
YABLOKO has to collect 157,000 signatures (whereas the number
of signatures per each region should not exceed 5,000) to
get registered in the State Duma election campaign. However,
YABLOKO is going to collect 200,000 signatures in 50 regions
so that make sure the party is registered even if the Central
Electoral Commission finds some signatures faulty.
YABLOKOs candidates were nominated on September 11 and the
list of candidates was attested by the Central Electoral Commission
on September 20.
See also:
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
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