MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Wednesday stated it didn’t think about, a former opposition lawmaker looking for to run for president on an anti-war ticket, as a critical rival to President Vladimir Putin.
Nadezhdin, 60, is at the moment attempting to gather 100,000 signatures by the tip of January to be registered as a candidate within the March 15-17 presidential election.
In latest days, some Russians against what Moscow calls its “particular navy operation” in Ukraine have queued up within the chilly to supply their sigantures in his help.
When requested on Wednesday if Nadezhdin was a rival who posed a political risk to Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated: “By no means, we do not see him as a rival. Any citizen has the best to run for president in the event that they meet plenty of situations.”
Putin, in energy as both president or prime minister for the reason that finish of 1999 and accountable for all of the state’s levers, is extensively anticipated to win one other six-year time period in March.
Nadezhdin’s supporters say he has handed the 1,00,000 siganture mark, garnering appreciable help in Moscow and St Petersburg, however nonetheless wants extra from different components of Russia as a result of the signatures should be unfold throughout at the very least 40 areas of the world’s largest nation.
The Kremlin says most Russians again what it casts as Moscow’s quest to make sure its personal safety in Ukraine.
Nadezhdin, 60, is at the moment attempting to gather 100,000 signatures by the tip of January to be registered as a candidate within the March 15-17 presidential election.
In latest days, some Russians against what Moscow calls its “particular navy operation” in Ukraine have queued up within the chilly to supply their sigantures in his help.
When requested on Wednesday if Nadezhdin was a rival who posed a political risk to Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated: “By no means, we do not see him as a rival. Any citizen has the best to run for president in the event that they meet plenty of situations.”
Putin, in energy as both president or prime minister for the reason that finish of 1999 and accountable for all of the state’s levers, is extensively anticipated to win one other six-year time period in March.
Nadezhdin’s supporters say he has handed the 1,00,000 siganture mark, garnering appreciable help in Moscow and St Petersburg, however nonetheless wants extra from different components of Russia as a result of the signatures should be unfold throughout at the very least 40 areas of the world’s largest nation.
The Kremlin says most Russians again what it casts as Moscow’s quest to make sure its personal safety in Ukraine.
