A former TV journalist is barred from standing by officials due to "mistakes" on her application form.

Independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova wanted to run on a platform to end the war with Ukraine.

But the electoral commission voted unanimously to reject her candidacy three days after her application, citing 100 “mistakes” on her form.

Ms Duntsova said she would appeal the decision at the Supreme Court.

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.

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.worldOP
    190·
    2 years ago

    Mr Putin remains the only candidate to be able to register as a candidate.

    He doesn’t even try to pretend anymore.

    • umbraroze@kbin.social
      28·
      2 years ago

      Reporter: “Mr. Putin, how is it possible that you got 132% of the vote?”
      Putin: “It is merely the byproduct of our superiour domestic mathematical sciences. The numbers are simply greater than the ones produced by foreign-made axioms. Do think of all of the great achievements our mathematicians have done over centuries, such as proving the Poincaré conjecture.”
      Reporter: (gasp) “Your ballot results were tabulated by Grigori Perelman?”
      Putin: “No, we looked at his qualifications but we figured he was out of our reach, unfortunately. We had the results tabulated by some other weird mathematician with a massive case of cabin fever. We saved a lot of taxpayer money this way.”

      • ApexHunter@lemmy.ml
        8·
        2 years ago

        You see, only 39% of the population voted. 95% of the people who voted, voted for Putin. So if you extrapolate that out to the entire population, you get 37% + 95% = 132%. With math like that you can’t lose!

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    2 years ago

    Ha. ha. ha.

    No, I was totally after voiting for her, and was in a pool of her initial signings. But having that toothless candidate who’s just for the peaceful sky and everything being nice, and progressive, just declined,

    a candidate that could’ve been collected like 5% on votes in march,

    it shows, how fragile and scared these apparatchiks, or rather chekists are.

    They want none even questioning war. They fear Tikhanovskaya 2.0, everyone cooperating against the regime under one, any banner, their campaign as a general protest. Just as a possibility.

    I don’t feel like her campaign could do that much, or even a fraction of what fearless, furious belarusian bastards did in 2020 before russian corps got involved

    (and you need to fucking note it, and pay for the first round for them if you meet any),

    but even that little is scary to them. And it speaks volumes more than any queries into public opinion done in decaying police state with a raging propaganda.

    I don’t want to be too positive about that and say tis’ are bad news, but also a slight promise of good news, or something. At many points before like in 2011 I hoped that’s the time the straw would break a donkey’s back, and they just kept on going.

    But she’s no Navalny, no Nemtsov, just a nobody, and they shut her off. And it means something.

    • Skeezix@lemmy.worldBanned
      8·
      2 years ago

      Do not worry comrade. If uncle putin dont like her then she probably stand too close to window.

      • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 years ago

        I wonder if he even knows about her. Guy’s like stuck in the ninghties, and everything he gets is in printed papers. There’s a doubt someone even said to him she exists.

        And defenestration is too far in her roadmap, still. She didn’t even said any ugly words like ‘war’, or even ‘lustration’. Duntsova has much to do to claim her out-of-the-window voyage. And, still, got denied.

      • lad@programming.dev
        2·
        2 years ago

        Before shit had hit the fan with that failed coup I thought that Prigozhin would run for the president for real

    • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
      59·
      2 years ago

      I wonder what it’s like to live in a country where a bunch of idiots can’t see what a traitorous bastard their favorite fat ass bumbling bitch of a candidate is.

      • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
        2·
        2 years ago

        Oh they know. They still wave the flag of another failed attempt to split the nation. They’re all traitorous bastards.

    • meco03211@lemmy.world
      27·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, like the Republicans who brought the lawsuit in Colorado… cause ya know, that was Republicans trying to block trump.

      • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, Arnold isn’t a natural born citizen. He probably wouldn’t be bad, but the last actor to be president fucked the country so bad it should be an excluded class anyway.

        • Stern@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Interestingly both Ronny and Arnold were governors of the same state.

          Arnold got term limited but its questionable if he could have won a third term even if he could run since his approval rating was in the shitter by the time he left office.

    • Diotima@kbin.social
      14·
      2 years ago

      I wonder what it’s like to support a candidate who disqualifies himself by violating the Constitution he once swore to uphold?

      The orange insurrectionist fucked around. Let him find out.

      • lad@programming.dev
        3·
        2 years ago

        That option seems to lurking just around the corner. Next year sure is going to be interesting 😢

    • Novman@feddit.it
      1·
      2 years ago

      Lol, anti war candidate in Usa banned, same in Russia. Two jokes of democracies.

      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 years ago

        Oh there’s still some stuff around. Seems like the Russian courts have cleared their schedules of all things Navalny. But, there isn’t a lot. Gone Baby Gone.