Posted on 02/06/2024 9:44:34 AM PST by canuck_conservative
Its latest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine on Monday, however, said that a recent announcement could signal that the Kremlin may have backtracked from this plan out of concern that Nadezhdin might gain too many votes and reduce Putin's margin of victory below levels the Kremlin is willing to accept.
The think tank was referring to an announcement on Monday from Russia's electoral authority, the Central Election Commission (CEC), regarding Nadezhdin, which said it discovered a 15 percent error rate in the signatures collected by his campaign. Under electoral rules, error rates must not exceed five percent should a candidate wish to be registered. The electoral authority is due to make a final call on Nadezhdin's candidacy on Wednesday...
The ISW said Russian officials and sources have increasingly censored and sought to discredit Nadezhdin after his campaign gained significant prominence and his popularity received a boost.
For example, Russian CEC deputy chairperson Nikolai Bulaev questioned Nadezhdin's integrity on February 2, saying that his "campaign collected dozens of signatures of deceased Russians."
Nadezhdin previously called for Putin's ousting in a rare display of public opposition.
"We simply have to choose different authorities to govern the country that would stop this story with Ukraine," he said on state TV channel NTV in May 2023, adding that he believed that a change of government would allow Russia to "build relations" with European countries and "everything will come back into place."
Nadezhdin said that in the 2024 presidential election "we need to choose somebody else, and not Putin. Everything will be good then." ...
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Oops ... instead, the public is supporting Nadezhdin, and saying how unpopular the War is with them
So now the Kremlin will play its usual dirty tricks and disqualify Nadezhdin for having too many dead people, or not enough signatures, etc.
The fix is in! This guy is making Putin look bad!
We'll find out on Wednesday ...
Yes indeed! Nadezhdin will probably soon become Navalny’s cellmate in the Arctic, or else have a sudden, unexpected fall out of a skyscraper window.
Surprised that Putin and Biden don’t get along since they have so much in common
Given what happened to Boris Nemtzov and then Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the guy’s clearly got nerves of steel
he should try mail in ballots...it worked for biden...
I think his election is safe, he’s up by 70 points.
LOL, the deep state loves their Khodorkovsky butt boys.
Thank you for the reality check.
NewsWeek is consistently Propaganda.
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I didn't know Putin was a pedo like Joe. How'd I miss that?
Ex-KGB spy was killed because he claimed Putin was a pedophile
Vladimir Putin was furious when one of his former spies, Alexander Litvinenko, publicly called him a pedophile in 2006 — a slur that likely spurred the Russian leader to order the dissident’s assassination in London four months later, a British report concluded on Thursday.
Litvinenko, who had lived under asylum in Britain since 2000, after defecting from the FSB — the KGB’s successor agency — had ignited Putin’s outrage by claiming on a Russian-language Web site that the spy agency once possessed videotapes showing Putin “making sex with some underage boys.”
https://nypost.com/2016/01/21/murdered-ex-spy-accused-putin-of-pedophilia/
Oh no! His margin of victory could be reduced. Any little bit of positive disinfo your media masters could muster helps the poor warmongering but doubting MIC stooges.
Do you frequent UMCRevMom’s threads?
More CIA projection isn’t this what’s happening to Joe Biden.
The CIA knows a lot about pedos IMHO so they can write up some good fake stories about Putin.
37% would reverse the decision. That’s encouraging. What of the other 63 per cent?
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