Rodina Party Sues to Remove Yabloko from Pskov Regional Elections
2 sources · Latvia
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- Novaya Gazeta Europe
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The Rodina party has filed a lawsuit with the Pskov Regional Court seeking to remove the Yabloko party's candidate list from the elections for the regional parliament. The court is scheduled to hear the case on August 25. According to Yabloko's press service, Pskov is the only region where the party currently holds seats in the regional parliament and had been cleared to run in the upcoming elections.
This legal action follows a ruling by Russia's Supreme Court on August 10, which removed Yabloko's federal candidate list from the State Duma elections. That decision was based on a lawsuit by Rodina alleging that Yabloko violated copyright law and made illegal campaign advertising payments. While the federal list was removed, the Supreme Court's decision did not affect Yabloko's 126 candidates running in single mandate districts, though some of those candidates are facing separate lawsuits to remove them from the ballot.
Artur Gaiduk, chairman of Yabloko's Pskov branch, stated that the party is being fought without rules or law and argued there are no legal grounds for the removal. The Pskov region is also the home of Yabloko deputy chairman Lev Shlosberg, who was sentenced on August 17 to 11 years in prison for repeatedly discrediting the Russian military and spreading fake news.
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- Outlets of this lean framed the legal challenges as an effort to silence an antiwar party and deprive voters of the chance to vote for peace and freedom.
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