Local election officials have banned about
45 percent of the candidates nominated by the liberal Yabloko
party for the March regional elections, compared with 0.8
percent for the ruling United Russia, Kommersant reported
Thursday.
The Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia each had 6.1
percent of their candidates removed, while the Communists
lost 5.3 percent, the daily said, citing data from the Central
Elections Commission.
The Patriots of Russia — a nonparliamentary party like Yabloko
— lost 20 percent of its candidates, and 14.6 percent were
culled among the independents.
Some 20,400 mandates will be up for grabs, including 12 regional
legislatures, during the vote on March 13.
The regions to elect legislatures are Kaliningrad, Kirov,
Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Tver and Tambov, as well
as the republics of Komi, Dagestan and Adygeya, and the Chukotka
and Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous regions.
United Russia has successfully nominated a total of 20,300
candidates. The Communist and A Just Russia parties boast
about 3,700 candidates each, the Liberal Democrats have 3,300,
and the other parties have less than 1,000 nominees each.
There are also more than 20,000 independents.
Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin has filed a complaint with
Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin, Gazeta.ru reported
Thursday.
Vote-related issues are normally dealt with by Central Elections
Commission — which reported receiving more than 200 complaints,
according to Rossiiskaya Gazeta — but President Dmitry Medvedev
advised party leaders last month to contact his office directly
in case of election violations.
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