The lists of candidates to the deputies of the
Moscow City Duma submitted by the YABLOKO party to the Moscow
Electoral Commission were attested and certified at the Commission
meeting on Monday.
YABLOKO's list of 49 candidates was approved by the party conference
of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO on July 22. The list is topped
by Moscow City Duma deputies Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO's leader
and Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, and Eugeni Bunimovich,
Deputy Chair of the Moscow YABLOKO.
The rest 47 candidates are included into 17 regional groups.
The total of 49 candidates includes 28 YABLOKO members and 21
non-members, 21 candidates are women and six women top the regional
lists.
YABLOKO exercised its right to nominate a single mandate candidate
only in one electoral district out of 17, proposing ex-deputy
of the Moscow City Duma, member of the Moscow Political Council
of the Solidarity movement Dmitry Katayev.
The regional groups were topped by head of the International
Security Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Arbatov,
ecologist Alexei Yablokov, human rights activists Valery Borschyov
and Andrei Babushkin, head of the Subcommittee for Collective
Investments Market Development of the Trade and Commerce Chamber
of the RF Anatoli Rabinovich, leader of the Soldiers' Mothers
faction Svetlana Kuznetzova, head of the Club of Deputies of Moscow
Municipal Councils Zoya Shargatova, leader of the For the Fair
Market movement Roman Zhigulsky, members of the Youth Chamber
at the Moscow City Duma Semyon Burd and Alexander Gnezdilov, ex-deputy
of the Moscow City Council Alexander Melnikov, Dmitry Katayev,
as well as leaders of public initiative groups.
Chairman of YABLOKO's party commission Boris Moiseyev became
member of the Moscow City Electoral Commission from the YABLOKO
party (with a consultative vote), Moiseyev replaced in this post,
according to the decision of the party conference, renowned expert
on electoral law and YABLOKO member Andrei Buzin.
Moiseyev explained to Interfax that as soon as the Moscow Electoral
Commission certifies YABLOKO's lists the party gets the right
to open an election account and transfer funds to it so that to
pay for printing of the lists for collection of signatures and
actually start collection of signatures.
To participate in the election race YABLOKO should by August
26 submit to the Electoral Commission at least 78,000 signatures
of Muscovites in support of YABLOKO's list. Considering the fact
that some signatures will not be confirmed (which is inevitable
in collection of such a large number of signatures), the party
plans, according to Moiseyev to submit to the Electoral Commission
about 100,000 signatures.
Only YABLOKO out of all the parties participating in the race
has to collect signatures, as it is the only party that does not
have a faction in the MOSCOW City Duma.
Dmitry Katayev has to submit about 4,000 signatures from his
electoral district.
Election to the Moscow City Duma will take place on October 11
and will be held according to the mixed scheme: 18 deputies will
be elected on parties' lists and 17 in single-mandate electoral
districts. The election barrier has been reduced for parties from
10% to 7% compared to the election in 2005.
See also:
Elections
to the Moscow City Duma 2009
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