Mr. Putin officially registered as a candidate for the Russian presidential election
Russia's Central Election Commission has registered Vladimir Putin as a candidate in the upcoming presidential election in March.
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| Mr. Putin officially registered as a candidate for Russian President |
The candidate certificate was awarded to the person nominated by Mr. Vladimir Putin.proxy. The incumbent Russian head of state will run as an independent candidate, so to register, candidate Putin needs to collect at least 300,000 voter signatures, with no more than 7,500 people in one region.
The application form along with other necessary documents for registering the candidate was submitted to the Central Election Commission of Russia on January 29. In total, Mr. Putin collected more than 1.6 million signatures in support of Mr. Putin, more than 314,000 of which were transferred to the Central Election Commission.
The commission's deputy chairman, Nikolai Bulaev, noted that only 232 signatures were found to be invalid, which is 0.39% of the total number selected for verification. This is still a record low in terms of invalid signatures compared to previous campaigns.
The Russian presidential election will be held on March 18.
