Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging Putin
Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging Putin
A former TV journalist is barred from standing by officials due to "mistakes" on her application form.
The commission said 29 people have so far filed to run for the presidency. But after today's decision, Mr Putin remains the only candidate to be able to register as a candidate.
Not just this anti-war candidate. It appears all candidates are banned from challenging Putin.
Did people really think a dictator would let a silly thing like an election get in the way of his ambition for power? It's hilarious that people thought Putin would give up his power without violence. The only way Putin will ever leave power is through violence. Look at those gigantic tables he sits at. Putin knows how "popular" he is, even in his own country.
Has the world known a bigger coward?
What a coincidence, here in the US we banned all our anti-war candidates from the presidential election too! (Yes, I know dnc primary candidates aren't literally and legally banned).
The future our Republicans want.
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The presidential election, which will be held in March 2024, is Russia's first since President Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago.
The head of Russia's electoral commission, Ella Pamfilova, said Ms Duntsova would not be allowed to progress to the next stage of gathering thousands of supporters' signatures.
At the time, she told the Reuters news agency: "Any sane person taking this step would be afraid - but fear must not win."
Moscow has sidelined opposition figures for years, and President Putin is expected to win in March; the Kremlin claims he enjoys genuine support among Russians.
In November, a nationalist pro-war blogger who had fiercely criticised Russia's military strategy in Ukraine, said he wanted to challenge Putin and disrupt the "sham" poll.
Mr Putin recently showed a rare example of caving in to popular pressure - by cutting the cost of buying chicken and eggs.
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See here in your application you made errors. For example in the first field where it says "Name", you didn't write "Putin". That is not allowed.
Meanwhile in the land of the free...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/politics/trump-colorado-supreme-court-14th-amendment/index.html
if this continues that would be fucking amazing
Good. Letting insurrectionists run for office in the government they’re actively trying to destroy should be forbidden.