The Supreme Court rejected two claims by ex-presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin.
Both of these claims, as experts noted, were not initially intended to be satisfied and were written to be transferred to the Constitutional Court. At the same time, the main claim – the actual denial of registration – has not yet been filed; previously the deadline was February 16.
In one of the lawsuits, Nadezhdin challenged the Central Election Commission’s instructions on verifying signatures, namely paragraph 4.2.1, which does not imply the presence of expert explanations for what reasons a particular signature was recognized as invalid. The inspection protocol contains only violation codes without any justification for why the expert considers this signature invalid, Nadezhdin writes in his lawsuit.
At the court hearing, a representative of the Central Election Commission said that a statement with a list of invalid signatures was signed by a handwriting expert based on his conclusion. However, due to the absence of this conclusion in the refusal to Nadezhdin, the Central Election Commission considers the statement itself to be such.
Nadezhdin also asked the court to invalidate the form of the statement of verification of signature sheets, since it does not provide space for the reasoning opinions of experts, on the basis of which this or that signature was rejected.
In the second lawsuit, Nadezhdin challenged the form of the list of collectors, which requires indicating in which region the collector was collecting signatures. Nadezhdin considered such a requirement not based on the law. Both claims were not satisfied by the court.
I miss Boris Nemtsov. We managed to do a lot together (you can read about our work on my website). Russia would be a different country if Boris Efimovich had been elected President.
Nemtsov’s mother, Dina Yakovlevna, died yesterday. She outlived her son by 9 years. I wish strength and health to the family of Boris Efimovich. We will continue his fight for a country that loves people, not power.
https://t.me/BorisNadezhdin/972
Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in central Moscow on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov