Nadezhdin could have won at least 15% of the votes.
And here is an important clarification about why the Central Election Commission made the final (and, obviously, agreed upon with the Kremlin) decision to refuse to register Boris Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate. A recent opinion poll, the results of which were at our disposal, showed that if the elections were held this weekend, Nadezhdin could have taken second place and received 10-10.5% of the vote.
“If the dynamics of his campaign were maintained, Borya (Boris Nadezhdin - Ed.) could gain 15% of the vote or even more. A huge number. Impermissible,” said a political strategist who is part of Sergei Kiriyenko’s circle and has known Nadezhdin for a long time.
Opinion polls showed that most of all citizens supported the desire of the failed candidate to stop the [invasion of Ukraine]. Some interlocutors noted the freshness of his ideas, while others emphasized his previous experience in domestic politics. However, and this is important, approximately half of those who were ready to vote for Nadezhdin were not interested in him before the elections, and approximately 20% of potential voters learned about his campaign from relatives and friends. That is, the opinion poll showed that an important share of voters for Nadezhdin was essentially provided by the so-called word of mouth.
In order to deliver the newspaper to several neighboring regions at once, we printed a circulation in Udmurtia and handed it over to the Baikal Service delivery service. The newspapers were supposed to go to Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod.
When the chief of our headquarters in Izhevsk called back to Baikal Service to make sure that the newspapers had been sent, he was informed that the entire circulation - 400 thousand copies - had allegedly been seized by the police.
When asked to provide some documents confirming the seizure of circulation from Baikal Service, they refused.
After attempts to find out the fate of the circulation, a representative of Baikal Service in an obscene form refused further communication to an employee of Boris Nadezhdin's headquarters.
We demand the return of the “lost” edition immediately!