Participants of the pre-election race will meet with municipal deputies in the Council of Municipalities of Moscow (AMOM). A special invitation to the candidates for the mayor, Dmitry Gudkov and Ilya Yashin, said the head of the Association of the capital's mundeps Vladimir Dudochkin. He specified that the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 20. "All 18 candidates who submitted documents to the Moscow City Council were invited to the meeting. I personally called individual candidates, talked with Dmitry Gudkov and Ilya Yashin, "Dudochkin quoted the" City News Agency ". He stressed that in the majority representatives of the "United Russia", and urged the deputies from the party of power not to ignore the next meeting. "We turned to the Moscow City Party Department to support the initiative, and recommended that the deputies from United Russia take part in this meeting," the head of the Association noted, adding that all candidates are invited to AMOM "regardless of party affiliation". "They can tell their programs and convince MPs that they deserve to be candidates for mayors. We, in turn, will ensure that it resembles promptly, if one of the deputies wants to vote for the municipal filter. To all technical formalities by will was respected, "- assured Dudochkin. Taking advantage of the idea of ??the editor-in-chief of "Echo of Moscow" Alexei Venediktov, AMOM will help candidates for mayors.
First of all, it will help get signatures to pass the municipal filter. The Council will provide a platform for the participants of the pre-election race so that they can present their programs and discuss the key problems of the capital. It is planned that a meeting will be attended by a notary. Thus, the deputies present can sign the support of their candidate. The head of the Tagansky district, Ilya Sviridov, from the Just Russia Party, the pilot-cosmonaut Sergei Revin from the Green Party of Russia, the former State Duma deputy Vadim Kumin from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the head of the peasant economy, the businessman Herman Sterligov, the head of the Moscow municipal District Krasnoselsky Ilya Yashin, as well as musician, leader of the group "Corrosion of Metal" Sergei "Spider" Troitsky and Russian journalist Anton Krasovsky. Acting mayor Sergei Sobyanin goes to the polls as a self-nominated.
To register candidates for mayors before July 3 should collect 110 signatures of municipal deputies to overcome the so-called "municipal filter". This day is also the last day when documents for registration will be accepted. They can be served until 18:00. And wait for a response from the Moscow Election Commission, which will issue a decision on registration or denial within 10 days after the application.
The names of candidates who are on the ballot papers will be issued no later than July 13. Elections of the Moscow mayor will be held on a single voting day, September 9.