Ella Pamfilova
The Chairman of the Central election Commission, Ella Pamfilova urged the leadership of the “Apple” to eliminate the mistakes made in the nomination of the mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman as a candidate for Governor of the Sverdlovsk region. It is reported RIA Novosti on Friday, June 30.
The Commission “there are a number of questions on the nature and procedure of the nomination” Roizman, said Pamfilova. “Now it’s not too late to fix everything. I ask the representatives of the “Yabloko”: immediately contact the CEC, that we now elaborate all the nuances registration, help, there is still time until 21 July to fix it,” she said.
The nomination of candidates should be carried out strictly within the law, failure to comply with these requirements is one of the grounds for refusal of registration, reminded the head of the CEC
Pamfilova said that at the moment two dozen political parties have nominated a total of 88 candidates in the gubernatorial election in 16 regions of Russia. In addition, the documents filed, one by the independent candidate.
On June 21 the Federal leadership of Yabloko agreed on the candidacy of Roizman for participation in elections of the head of the Sverdlovsk region, which will be held in September. Initially this question was to consider a regional cell “Yabloko”, but on June 17 the conference on the nomination of the candidate fell through due to the protest of its leadership against the Yekaterinburg mayor.
The Deputy Director of the National Institute of development of modern ideology Gleb Kuznetsov in an interview with “Tape.ru” called a mistake the decision of Yabloko to nominate Roizman as a candidate in the gubernatorial election. According to the analyst, this step caused the party serious reputational damage.