The party of pensioners intends to participate in elections of the mayor of Moscow
The organization announced that the party will decide on participation in presidential elections at the Congress at the end of the year.
MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. The Russian party of pensioners for social justice plans to nominate its candidate for the Moscow mayoral elections to be held in September 2018. This was reported on Saturday a member of the Presidium of the Central Council of the party Vladimir Vorozhtsov.
“We, in principle, have picked up very good, we think, a candidate for the elections of the mayor of Moscow. Completes the development of his very interesting pre-election program,” he said at the party Congress.
In the program of this candidate, whose name is not called Vorozhtsov, take into account the positive and negative experience of the capital’s mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Sergei Sobyanin. Vorozhtsov also said that the party intends to fully participate in elections at all levels.
The Chairman of the Central Council of the party Vladimir Burakov, in turn, refused to give TASS the name of a possible candidate in the mayoral election. “Elections of the mayor has not yet announced when it will be announced, we can only guess. By this time, may change the nominee, we will find a candidate more vivid, it is premature to speak,” he said.
According to Burakova, in the municipal elections in Moscow, which will be held September 10 this year, the party plans to field candidates in about half of the districts.
The Russian party of pensioners for justice Saturday at the Congress changed its name, becoming the Russian party of pensioners for social justice, changed the emblem, and also abolished the office of Chairman.
Presidential elections
As reported TASS Vladimir Burakov, the Russian party of pensioners for social justice at the end of this year will hold a Congress which will determine the format of its participation in the presidential elections.
We want our state to be stable. I think that certainly at the end of this year’s Convention, which will be clearly worked out position on participation in presidential vibrovelocity burgomeister the Central Council of the party of pensioners
Election of the President of Russia will be held in March 2018, respectively, the election campaign is due to start in November-December of 2017.
Non-parliamentary parties, which include the Russian party of pensioners for social justice, for the registration of presidential election candidates must collect at least 100 thousand signatures of voters.
In the elections to the state Duma on 18 September 2016, the party won 1,73% of the vote (for the pass the barrier in 5%), candidates of the party in single-mandate districts due to irregularities during the nomination were not approved to participate in the elections.
The Russian party of pensioners for justice today, the Congress changed its name, becoming the Russian party of pensioners for social justice, changed the emblem, and also abolished the office of Chairman.