Press Realease, 21.12.2017

Tomorrow, on 22 December, after being nominated at the party congress, Yabloko’s presidential candidate will submit to the Central Election Commission a set of documents required for registration in the election race.

On 21 December, Yabloko congress will hold a vote on nominating a party candidate for the presidential elections. It is expected that Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, will be such a candidate. His candidature was approved by the previous party congress in February 2016.

The ceremony of nomination will be held in the World Trade Center (Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, 12, Congress Center, Entrance 4) the next day, on 22 December. Delegates and guests of the congress will be addressed by the presidential candidate, the leaders of Yabloko, as well as the party’s allies in this election.

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 the candidate.