2023-12-17 21:07:19
A journalist, Yekaterina Duntsova, today received the support of a popular initiative to confront the current Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in the March 2024 presidential elections.
Duntsova, 40, received the support of 521 of the more than 700 attendees at an independent congress held in Moscow, according to the SOTA portal.
For security reasons, the venue of the event was not communicated through social networks until the last moment, which did not prevent police officers from appearing in the room where it took place.
Representatives of the Central Electoral Commission also appeared, before whom the popular initiative will have to present a minimum of 300 thousand signatures before January 25.
Putin also received the support of a popular initiative on Saturday, since he will run as an independent candidate, although on Sunday the Kremlin party, United Russia, expressed its full support for him during its federal congress.
Duntsova announced her election plans in mid-November, arguing that “In the last ten years the country has moved in the wrong direction”a road that leads to the “self destruction”.
“I want Russia to be a democratic, flourishing and peaceful state”said the journalist and politician, who was elected in 2019 as a deputy to the municipal assembly of the city of Rzhev, in the Tver region, just over 200 kilometers from Moscow.
Among other proposals, he advocates for the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, the introduction of democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners.
As soon as she communicated her ambitions, the journalist was summoned before the Prosecutor’s Office, where she was questioned about her opinion about the military campaign in the neighboring country.
Furthermore, in early December he reported that VTB bank had blocked money transfers in his name when he approached his supporters to financially support his campaign.
Mother of three children, Duntsova is a native of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk and has a degree in law and audiovisual journalism.
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