“During the entire period of the election campaign, 290 candidates were excluded from the federal lists.
Of these, 211 candidates (73 percent) were excluded on the basis of decisions of the political parties themselves or personal statements of candidates.
And only 79 candidates (27 percent), including 27 people - under a new article on belonging to extremist activity - were expelled by the Central Election Commission, ”Pamfilova said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
According to her, this is only a third of the total number of exceptions that the parties themselves adopted.
She noted that among the reasons for refusals is the presence of a criminal record, dual citizenship.
Earlier it became known that 2.3 million applications were submitted in Moscow to participate in online voting in the elections to the State Duma, the Moscow City Duma and the Council of Deputies of the Shchukino district.