Sobchak announced the intention to create a political party after the presidential election
The presenter added that he is going to nominate his candidacy at the next presidential election in 2024.
MOSCOW, December 4. /TASS/. TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, who declared intention to participate in presidential elections, plans to create its own political party after the elections in 2018. She announced this on Monday in interview to TV channel “Rain”.
“My role as a man who, showing a result of a line “against all”, and then can form a big movement, the party that then can participate in Duma elections”, — she said.
Sobchak added that he came into politics “seriously”, and said that he was going to nominate his candidacy for the next presidential election, in 2024.
This is the way, the work within these six years — with the organization of the party, with the Duma elections with the organisation for support.Ksenia Sobchak
Sobchak announced plans to participate in presidential elections in Russia on October 24. Her campaign headquarters was headed by the founder of NTV and Advisor of the electoral headquarters of Boris Yeltsin in 1996, Igor Malashenko.
Regular elections of the President of Russia will be held in March 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet announced the decision to participate in the elections and talked about the intention to nominate his candidacy.