Sobyanin submits documents for self-nomination in mayoral elections to Moscow City Elections Committee
MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) - Sergei Sobyanin, acting mayor of Moscow, has submitted documents for his self-nomination to the Moscow City Elections Commission for the post of Moscow mayor.
Sobyanin produced his passport for the commission and filed an application for self-nomination along with an income statement for 2012 and some other documents in the Moscow City Elections Commission on Monday afternoon, an Interfax correspondent has reported.
After looking through the documents, Moscow City Elections Commission Chairman Valentin Gorbunov gave Sobyanin confirmation of the receipt of his documents and gave him permission to open a candidate's election account.
Sobyanin is now required to collect 73,000 voters' signatures and the signatures of 110 deputies of local self-government bodies by July 11 to be registered as a candidate for the post of Moscow mayor. The mayoral elections will be held in Moscow on September 8.
The number of candidates has now reached nine.
Sergei Mitrokhin (chairman of the party Yabloko), opposition activist Alexei Navalny (nominated by the party RPR-PARNAS), and State Duma deputy Mikhail Degtyaryov (nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party) submitted their documents for nomination on Saturday.
Rock musician Sergei Troitsky (nicknamed "Pauk," which translates as "spider"), Svetlana Peunova (chairman of the political party Volya), Ivan Karpushkin (businessman), Igor Suzdaltsev (businessman), and Alexei Denisov (a 30-year-old unemployed man) have submitted their documents to the Moscow City Elections Commission since the beginning of the official nomination.
