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Moscow bars pro-peace candidate from running in presidential election

www.euronews.com Moscow bars pro-peace candidate from running in presidential election

Yekaterina Duntsova, a former journalist and city councillor campaigning for peace and "democratic processes", was rejected by the Russian Central Electoral Committee as a potential candidate due to "errors in documents".

Archived version: https://archive.ph/0FJyD
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231223220139/https://www.euronews.com/2023/12/23/moscow-bars-pro-peace-candidate-from-running-in-presidential-election

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Moscow just bans any candidate that could threaten Putin's reign.
- I cannot understand why they even bother to do the elections at all. It is just for show, and everybody know it. Why not just skip it completely?
  
  The same reason the US still likes to refer to itself as a democracy. Theater.
  
  They feel themselves stronger if an election was held. The populace feels itself somehow weaker and obligated to obey if an election was held.
  
  See my other comment under this post.
  
  The law / constitution requires that elections be held. You can't break the law without a lot of people noticing. But you can bend it sufficiently to ensure you win.
  
  To show it to Ukraine probably.
Moscow bars any candidate that isnt putin
Putin: "But Colorado did it first"

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