The forthcoming election of president in Russia scheduled for March 4, 2012 is already illegitimate. Why? Candidates from parliamentary parties and self-nominee candidates are set in unequal conditions in violation of Constitution. If you are a self-nominee you are to collect 2 million signatures of votes in you support, in......20 days! That is the price of registration you as a candidate. Sounds unrealistic, and it is actually so! That is how unwanted candidates are being sorted out from the election. Or maybe not all of them, if you are an oligarch, like Michael Prokhorov, and have enough money to fabricate those signatures, you are welcome to continue in the election race. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foD21m-I5CQ"]2 000 000 signatures or dollars. What will make you a president? - YouTube[/ame]
As example their candidat Svetlana Peunova was excluded from the list of candidates for submitting not-enough amount of signatures in her support. Interestingly enough, political scientists consider the amount of signatures stated by acting elective legislation impossible for collection in allocated time period, which means, that candidates who met the requested amount (including oligarch Prokhorov) are likely to have committed fraud. She requested the Supreme Court of the RF to prove consistency of acting Russian elective legislation with Russian constitution, the direct-acting law of the country. The hearing rejected the request: The power did not invent insuperable obstacles for not-approved candidates to have second thoughts. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4fn4d-T9s&lis"]Petition to the Supreme Court of the RF from Svetlana Peunova - YouTube[/ame]
...equally scary is the current system of buying your way into the Presidency. Romney spent $15 million, in one month alone, buying ads to diss Gingrich. In Britain there is a cap on how much advertising time is allowed per party, and each party is allocated equal TV ad time. This is much more fair in my opinion. I should make it clear that there is a distinction between 'political' advertising which is banned on UK TV and radio, and 'party political' advertising which is allowed. Therefore single issue ads are not permitted.
I support limits on funding for campaigns, for what it's worth. Still, as flawed as our system is, it's not as bad as Russia.
agree with you..I'm in Russia now on exchange programm. and i look after their illegal elections with my own eyes. money is a real quarantee of a power here...as in UK to regret
Hi guys! I want to continue this topic about unconstitutional elections in Russia. Many citizens as i can see do not allow bloody plans to happen... They think oligarchs and corrupted officials must resign because there is no more space for them in bright future. At the same time many people support their national leader Svetlana Peunova and believe she will lead the country to the prosperity. What goes around comes around. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_IQk9KXPM&feature"]Putin is a devil candidate for presidency! - YouTube[/ame]
