Grigory Yavlinsky submitted documents to the Central Electoral Commission for registation as a candidate in the presidential campaign.
Press Release, 22,12.2017
On 22 December Grigory Yavlinsky submitted documents to the Central Electoral Commission for registation as a candidate in the presidential campaign.
On 21 December, Yabloko congress nominated Grigory Yavlinsky a party candidate for the presidential elections.
Photo by RIA Novosti/Anton Denisov
Grigory Yavlinsky is a founder of the party, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
Grigory Yavlinsky participated in the presidential elections twice: in 1996, he represented a democratic alternative to the policies of the Boris Yeltsin’s Administration, and in 2000 was the only democratic politician running against Vladimir Putin. Then Yavlinsky came third and received 18.6 per cent in Moscow at a turnout of 67.1 per cent. In 2012, Grigory Yavlinsky, who expressed the demands of the civil protest movement, was not allowed to participate in the presidential elections for political reasons.
To participate in the presidential election in 2018 Grigory Yavlinsky as a candidate from a non-parliamentary party will have to collect at least 100,000 voters’ signatures, whereas the spread of signatures should be more or less equal across Russia, a region can not give more than 2,500 signatures for a candidate.
Posted: December 28th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018.