Central Election Commission of Russia The initiative group of anti-Kremlin journalist Ekaterina Duntsova was denied registration for the March 17 presidential elections.

The commission announced this Saturday in Moscow that there were various mistakes in the organization initiative group and in the submitted documents.

Duntsova, 40, criticized the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war against Ukraine and offered herself to voters as an alternative. The initiative group would need to collect signatures in support register as a presidential candidate.

According to Duntsova’s supporters, some spelling errors in names were interpreted as “serious errors” in the documents.. The head of the election commission, Ella Pamfilova, considered a close confidant of President Vladimir Putin, said, addressing Duntsova, that “you are a young woman, you still have everything ahead of you. Any inconvenience can be turned into a plus.”

Russian state media previously linked the journalist to exiled Putin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Putin’s opponents have repeatedly complained that the electoral commission is rejecting the registration of candidates with formal errors. It is expected that, on the contrary, candidates who do not represent serious competition so that the current president will be allowed to participate in the next presidential election.

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It is considered certain that Putin will also emerge victorious in his fifth bid for the presidency. The President of Russia introduced changes to the Constitution Especially in order to be able to run again, and according to the current version of the Constitution, a 71-year-old man will be able to run for the last time in 2030. The presidential term in Russia is six years.