Russia Bars Leading Communist Politician From Upcoming Election
RFE
25 Jul 2021, 05:45 GMT+10
Russian electoral authorities have disqualified a top Communist Party candidate from running in September s parliamentary elections, the latest opposition figure to be barred ahead of the vote.
The Central Election Commission said on July 24 that Pavel Grudinin was excluded from the party list because the Prosecutor-General s Office had found he held foreign assets.
Grudinin took second place with 12 percent of the vote when he challenged Vladimir Putin in the 2018 presidential election.
After the election, he became a target of pro-Kremlin media, his agri-business began to face legal troubles, and he was stripped of his deputy mandate in the city council of Vidnoye, near Moscow.
Russia Bars Leading Communist Politician From Upcoming Election
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