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Post by eastmidlandsright on Feb 5, 2024 14:15:56 GMT
The CEC have told Nadezhdin that around 15% of the signatures that they inspected were deficient, well above the threshold for them to refuse to accept his candidacy. The formal decision won't be made until Wednesday but the decision appears almost certain. Nadezhdin will be able to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court but I wouldn't expect them to overrule the CEC.
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Feb 8, 2024 10:05:20 GMT
The CEC have confirmed that they will not register Nadezhdin as a candidate on the basis that 9,147 of the signatures he submitted were invalid. He has said that he will appeal this decision to the Supreme Court*. The CEC also declined to register Malinkovich stating that 8,979 of the signatures that he submitted were invalid. He has said that he will not appeal the decision.
*The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction when it comes to reviewing CEC decisions.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Feb 8, 2024 10:12:23 GMT
95,587 names were valid leaving him short of the 100,000 threshold.
Convenient. Anyone remotely surprised?
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Feb 8, 2024 12:54:13 GMT
95,587 names were valid leaving him short of the 100,000 threshold. Convenient. Anyone remotely surprised? I had thought they might allow him on the ballot just to demonstrate the lack of support for the "anti-war position" and since he isn't exactly trusted by anti-Putin liberals anyway many would boycott the election even if he were on the ballot. But no, of course no one is surprised as Russia is quite clearly what is sometimes referred to as a "managed democracy". EDIT: Nadezhdin's comments suggests that he accepts many of a signatures may have been invalid. His main complaint seems to be that the system was designed to make it all but impossible to collect and submit enough valid signatures unless you have a huge organisation behind you. He is almost certainly correct about this as requiring 100,000 signatures but only allowing up to 105,000 to be submitted, and capping them at 2,500 per federal subject, is clearly designed to make failure likely. |
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Post by froome on Feb 8, 2024 15:20:16 GMT
95,587 names were valid leaving him short of the 100,000 threshold. Convenient. Anyone remotely surprised? Also very convenient to have a list of 95,000+ people who Putin would consider to be his enemies. I have no doubt it will be put to good use. |
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Post by manchesterman on Feb 8, 2024 22:19:12 GMT
Anybody going to be watching the Carlson interview with Putin? Lands at 11pm tonight AIUI
I think I will out of curiosity, although I think we all pretty much know already how it will go and..err cui bono!
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Feb 13, 2024 22:31:38 GMT
Nadezhdin filed two lawsuits yesterday, mostly technical in nature. He has said that his main challenge to the CEC decision will come by Friday. His team appear to be trying to contact all those who signatures were deemed invalid. In the meantime we have an opinion poll without Nadezhdin wciom.ru/analytical-reviews/analiticheskii-obzor/vybory-2024-reitingi-kandidatovPutin: 75% Davankov: 5% Kharitonov: 4% Slutsky: 4% I would be surprised to see Kharitonov poll that low. The communists got 11% last time and 19% in he 2021 Duma elections. |
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Post by iainbhx on Feb 13, 2024 22:36:44 GMT
Surely someone can hack into the Kremlin servers and get the results in advance, they've bound to have worked them out now.
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how" I. V Stalin as attributed by Bazhanov.
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Post by michaelarden on Feb 14, 2024 20:58:20 GMT
95,587 names were valid leaving him short of the 100,000 threshold. Convenient. Anyone remotely surprised? That's pretty close to my 95.8% prediction for Putin's vote in this 'free and fair' election. Anyway five more years of fascist Putin will mean their navy will have the largest submarine fleet in the world. Mainly in the Black Sea. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Mar 15, 2024 17:43:38 GMT
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Mar 15, 2024 17:53:54 GMT
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Mar 15, 2024 21:31:42 GMT
Turnout nearly 35% on day one of voting. In Kherson oblast and the Donetsk People's Republic it is nearly 70%. I am reliably informed that authorities in Donetsk are desperate to deliver a very, very high vote for Putin.
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 16, 2024 10:18:08 GMT
Turnout nearly 35% on day one of voting. In Kherson oblast and the Donetsk People's Republic it is nearly 70%. I am reliably informed that authorities in Donetsk are desperate to deliver a very, very high vote for Putin.I wonder why that might be.  |
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 16, 2024 11:06:34 GMT
And that is a statement that could be read in more than one way....
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Mar 16, 2024 11:31:44 GMT
Turnout nearly 35% on day one of voting. In Kherson oblast and the Donetsk People's Republic it is nearly 70%. I am reliably informed that authorities in Donetsk are desperate to deliver a very, very high vote for Putin.I wonder why that might be. It is entirely understandable that those in new Russian territories want to demonstrate their loyalty to Putin as a way of minimising the chances that he lets them down in any future peace negotiations. According to my sources the authorities have pushed this line very strongly. It is nothing so crass as having armed men present while people vote (as some western media have reported) but the social pressure to not only vote but to vote for Putin is immense. The message is that voting for Putin is the patriotic duty of everybody in Donetsk and that anyone who doesn't is on the side of the Banderites. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Mar 16, 2024 11:48:37 GMT
Those territories will be returned to Ukraine once this illegal war is ended and Russia is put back where it belongs.
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Mar 16, 2024 11:52:12 GMT
Those territories will be returned to Ukraine once this illegal war is ended and Russia is put back where it belongs. The opinions of someone using such an asinine phrase as "illegal war" are worthless. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Mar 16, 2024 18:17:05 GMT
Putin's opponents know that this election is a sham. Destroying Putin and crippling Russia is the only way for the West to win.
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Mar 16, 2024 18:29:26 GMT
Putin's opponents know that this election is a sham. Destroying Putin and crippling Russia is the only way for the West to win. If you insist. I would have preferred for "The West" to mind our own business but if you prefer being on the losing side then so be it. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Mar 16, 2024 18:53:32 GMT
Putin's opponents know that this election is a sham. Destroying Putin and crippling Russia is the only way for the West to win. If you insist. I would have preferred for "The West" to mind our own business but if you prefer being on the losing side then so be it. This "election" is a coronation for a tyrant, with no democratic validity, following an illegal war into Ukraine. We all know the result of this "election". A rubber stamp for Putin. That's not democracy. Putin should be destroyed. |
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