Russia could disqualify candidate hoping to stand against Putin
www.lemonde.fr
Boris Nadezhdin's hopes of challenging the current president could be dashed by claims of the names of dead people being on his list of signatures collected in support of his candidacy.

Boris Nadezhdin, 60, sparked queues all over Russia in January when supporters submitted signatures so he could be registered as an official candidate in the presidential election. On Wednesday, he handed in more than the 100,000 required signatures to the Central Election Commission, which is expected to rule next week on whether he will be allowed to stand.

Now his hopes of challenging the current president could be dashed by claims that the signatures are from deceased individuals.

  • mathemachristianEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    Shitty electoral system at risk of being exploited. More at 11.

    Only this time its Russia doing the exploit. Which is shit, but the problem is deeper than “Russia bad”.

    • mmcintyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Of course the problem is deeper than “Russia bad”. Which is probably why, before this comment of mine, literally no other commenter mentioned “Russia bad”.

      Well, I guess now there’s two of us.

    • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Only this time its Russia doing the exploit.

      Uuhhhhhhhhhhhh. What?

      • awwwyissssEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Right? More like “as usually, it’s Russia doing the exploit”