Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish • 6 months ago

Moscow bars pro-peace candidate from running in presidential election

www.euronews.com

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Moscow bars pro-peace candidate from running in presidential election

www.euronews.com

Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish • 6 months ago

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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1•6 months ago
Maybe he likes the fanfare? Winning an election is like a celebration, throw parties and stuff.
- @gloriousspearfish
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  That is the most plausible explanation I have heard yet.

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