"you have error in documents"
"What would that be?"
"In field 'name' is not 'Vladimir Putin'. Grave error in documents, we cannot accept"
“There’s dead man’s signatures on this paper”
“What do you mean? They’re all standing right here in front of you”
bang bang bang
“See? Three dead man’s signatures”
I was seriously wondering how many conscripts might have signed before getting killed in Ukraine.
How convenient.
what's even more convenient is they submitted them on the 48th floor... where the windows are well tended and open easily.
Was the error that he filed the paperwork to run as president?
Nah, he failed to fall out of a window.
Some of the names that support him are apparently from dead people.
Unclear whether they were dead before Putin's people identified them.
Quelle surprise!
Welp I guess there goes another window. Also, I would like to mention that the same game plan is being used by Putin as Cheeto Mussolini was trying to do.
2 peas blah blah blah. You get it.
Doing this to the puppet “opponent” that they themselves came up with, to create an illusion that he’s a real candidate… So messed up, they’re laughing in people’s faces
this will not be a surprise for Nadezhdin and his team.. i'm sure they have been expecting this fight from the beginning, although they didn't expect to have as much support behind them going into it..
There was never going to be any fight and there was never going to be an election with more than one person on the ballot.
It's illegal to say anything bad about the government, the military or Putin. Anything you say against them could be construed as misinformation, which is also illegal.
Any other candidates would need to be approved by the Kremlin so they could at least campaign. Oh, did I say the Kremlin? I meant Putin.
Obviously Putin is going to get 105% of the votes. There's no winning if you're not Putin.
But this is still quite a disaster for Putin as the collected votes are the closest thing to citizens expressing their real opinion on Putin.
That's why they are trying to present the signatures as illegitimate. It's not that they are afraid of losing elections to the opposition. It's the fact that the opposition got such a support that is problem.
A minor correction: His guys brought the max of 105 000 (from 200k+) signatures and the margin of error is set to 5%. Izbirkom spoke about two candidates at that time when they summoned them. Earlier a state official incorrectly stated that the ballot of 5 signatures can't be brought with just one. Also, Izbirkom is said to use LLM to detect fake signatures lmao.
Yet, they can make up everything and has all tools to do so. I'm just curious what would they pick. And a brief wind of hope they wouldn't be able to, just for the sake of legitimization since that guy in the world news.
How kind of them. They're trying to save him from mysteriously falling out of a window.
"Dead souls"... were they dead before patinas investigators identified them?
If I ever ran opposed to Putin, I would never leave the ground floor. Can fall out of a window that’s 5 feet off the ground. Stairs just wouldn’t exist in my world.
I'd also avoid any kind of tea. Tea in Russia has been known to come with a complementary side dish of plutonium
Let me introduce you to "basements"
What an earth do these people think is going on? Does he think Russia is an actual democracy and that he stands even a remote chance of not only winning, but being allowed on the ballot?
If this guy actually turns up to this meeting on Monday there's a 95% probability he's going to be dead by the end of the day. I hope he knows that.
If you give up you'll never achieve anything. This guy is a hero. He puts himself in danger just to show that there's still people out there willing to stand against Putin. It gives the Kremlin a headache because they have to come up with some bullshit reason again to ban him from participating. It reminds all the Russians how their system is not a real democracy. He doesn't stand a chance to actually win, but it still communicates to everyone that there's plenty of people in Russia who support change.
Yeah I think this is the most likely explanation, like surely he knows he can’t win but he is a symbol that there is still opposition to Putin.
And if he dies he's a martyr. Usually takes an event like that to knock the dominoes.
I fully believe he is a Kremlin plant made specifically to encourage citizens with dissident opinions to step into the open.
Usually the errors Putin's opponents have, is falling off tall buildings.
I imagine the issue was with his Death Certificate it was filed, but the state sponsored hitman is taking his time.
This is interesting.
It's widely assumed that Putin has various measures to ensure he'll win no matter who runs against him.
This could be an indication that he's unpopular enough that even these measures won't be enough to ensure he'll win.
Same happened 6 years ago.
Also there was poll last year what maximum age should be for presidency. 60% are against 70 years or older president. Bunker Rat is 71.
I'm sure there were videos a few years back of goons openly shoving piles of paper into the ballot boxes.
Like, not even smart enough to do it off camera. Didn't matter anyway. Nobody is going to do anything about it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nadezhdin, a veteran politician who has associated with Kremlin insiders and the opposition to Putin, has been waging a last-minute campaign to get on the ballot for the election, with thousands of Russians standing for hours in the freezing cold to add their signature in his support.
Nadezhdin previously served as an aide to Sergei Kiriyenko, Putin’s domestic politics chief, and his deep contacts in government are controversial.
Tatiana Stanovaya, the founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik, said Nadezhdin had probably been permitted to try – and fail – to collect signatures for the elections to “show the hopelessness of the anti-war agenda”.
But since then, she said, Nadezhdin’s support from the camp of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his meeting with angry wives of soldiers fighting in Ukraine and his attempts at outreach to anti-war Russians who have fled abroad had made his candidacy politically embarrassing for the Kremlin.
Nadezhdin said in his elections manifesto that Putin had made a “fatal mistake by starting the special military operation”, the Kremlin’s preferred term for its invasion.
Another openly anti-war candidate, Yekaterina Duntsova, has already been disqualified by the elections commission, which refused to accept her nomination because of alleged errors in her paperwork, including spelling mistakes.
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Nobody buys this, right? Putin's people will find any error they decide they need to find
Oh that must be the %7 of the %107 vote turnout that Putin got from one of the precincts in Grozny
Always use Linux to file paperwork in Russia.
Windows will be the death of you over there.
Damn, yeah that happens sometimes that you send in some wrong papers.
Navalny 2018 all over again. Who could have guess that Putin fears anyone younger than him.
He fears anyohter other than him.
At least he tried. Hopefully they dont kill him for that.
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