Press Release, 10.06.2019

Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, and Valery Goryachev, Executive Secretary of the Party Bureau, submitted documents to the Moscow Electoral Commission on nomination of party’s candidates to run in the elections to the Moscow City Duma.

The Moscow Electoral Commission will certify the list of candidates from the Yabloko party, after that the documents will be transferred to the district electoral commissions. By the end of the day, the candidates will be able to open their special election accounts and begin collecting signatures of Muscovites in favour of their nomination. According to the Russian law, to participate in the elections, each of them has to collect from 5,000 to 6,000 signatures of residents of the districts from which they are running in support of their nomination. The deadline for submitting the signatures is until the end of June. Those failing to collect signatures (with passport data) of their supporters will not be registered in the race.

On Saturday, 8 June, the conference of the Moscow regional branch of Yabloko adopted a decision on nomination of party candidates to run in the Moscow parliamentary election. The party nominated its representatives for 15 single-mandate districts out of 45. In three more districts, members of the party will participate in the elections as self-nominees, but with the support of Yabloko. Thus, in the Moscow City Duma elections, the Yabloko party will be represented in 18 single-mandate districts out of 45.

Yabloko list of candidates for the Moscow City Duma election includes Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow (district 6), Andrei Babushkin, member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation (district 11), Sergei Mitrokhin, ex Yabloko Chair and member of the Party’s Federal Political Committee (district 43), heads of two municipal districts of Moscow – Andrei Morev (Yakimanka, district 44) and Yelena Rusakova (Gagarinsky, district 37), Yulia Scherbakova, Vice-President of Alfa-Bank (district 36), Viktor Khamrayev, ex-journalist of Kommersant who resigned in support of his colleagues sacked from the paper because of cencorship (district 13) and others. The full list of candidates is published on this page.