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Russia: Ex-reporter barred from challenging Putin in 2024 – DW
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https://www.dw.com/en/russia-ex-reporter-barred-from-challenging-putin-in-2024/a-67809903
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Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova has been barred from running in March’s presidential election because of “mistakes” in her application for registration as a candidate, Russian television reported.
A video posted by a Russian news channel showed a meeting of the Central Elections Committee (CEC) where the members voted unanimously to reject Duntsova’s candidacy.
Duntsova’s campaign team also confirmed the rejection on its Telegram channel and showed screenshots of documents the CEC had highlighted as lacking the proper signatures.
Duntsova, 40, would have been a challenger to President Vladimir Putin, and was planning to run on a platform of ending the war in Ukraine and freeing political prisoners.
With most Russian opposition figures either behind bars, like high-profile rival Alexei Navalny, or outside the country, Putin seems almost certain to win a fifth term as head of state in March, cementing a decadeslong grip on power.
The CEC has said it will also hold the ballot in four Ukrainian regions partially occupied by Russian forces and in the Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed from Kyiv in 2014.
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