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The modalities of candidacy in presidential election will be simplified, announces the vice-president of the central Elections Commission.

PARIS, 25 f v on 2008 - The modalities of candidacy in Russian presidential election will be simplified after elections of March 2nd of this year which gave rise to protests, announced on Monday in Paris the vice-president of the central Elections Commission visiting Paris.

" L " one of the current candidates, Mr Andre Bogdanov, of the democratic party complained to us about the excess of complications, according to him, necessary modalities to gather two million signatures of voters demanded to be candidate and we will take into account it and undertake a simplification of modalities after ongoing polls, said Mr Igor Borissov, vice-president of the central Elections Commission (Tsik) charged with international relations, in the course of meeting with the association of the journalists France-Russia last Monday in Paris.

Currently, the Russian Elections Act demands of a candidate 2 million voters' signatures with a maximum of 50 by administrative region (Subjects of the Federation). According to Mr Borissov, who is also the representative of the presidency at the Committee, this last envisages a French-style system of 500 signatures of elected representatives or the release of signature for the political parties recorded to the Ministry of Justice (15 currently).

The ancient prime minister Mikhail Kassianov, today comparing to the president Vladimir Putin, was so moved aside from election. According to Mr Borissov questioned on this subject, Mr Kassianov could not unite this two million signatures and those that he had made responsible for making it played him a bad turn by introducing wrong identity among which some were characters of novels! , said Mr Borissov by maintaining that according to opinion polls, Mr Kassianov could anyway hope hardly no more than 1 % voices. He however regretted that Mr Kassianov could not come. (more )

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