Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate for deputy of the Novgorod Regional Duma from Yabloko, will appeal in court the status of a candidate “affiliated with a foreign agent”
Press Release, 30.07.2024
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Electoral Commission has decided label once again Yabloko’s Ksenia Cherepanova as a candidate “affiliated with a foreign agent”. The Ministry of Justice provided such information to the electoral commission in connection with the Ksenia’s participation in the unregistered movement of independent election observation Golos. The politician appealed to court.
The Golos movement was recognised as a “foreign agent” in August 2021. Ksenia Cherepanova participated in the work of the election observers community, but publicly announced her withdrawal from the movement on 4 July, 2021, before the elections to the State Duma.
In the elections of 2021, 2022, 2023, the regional electoral commission assigned the candidate Ksenia Cherepanova, and along with her the lists of the Yabloko party candidates to the Novgorod Regional Duma and the Duma of Veliky Novgorod, the status of “foreign agent”. Russian legislation requires that candidates be labeled in this way during elections for two years after the end of their participation in the activities of organisations with the status of “foreign agents”.
More than three years have passed, but the Ministry of Justice has not excluded Ksenia Cherepanova from its list.
The candidate demands through the court that the Ministry of Justice and the regional electoral commission remove the status. The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will inform about the progress and results of the trial.
Yabloko seeks to repeal all repressive laws in Russia, including the law on foreign agents.
Posted: July 31st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.