For the first time, portable electronic voting terminals will be used during home-based voting in the mayoral elections in Moscow. At the same time, the opportunity to vote on paper will also remain, said Olga Kirillova, chairman of the Moscow City Electoral Committee. (More on why independent observers criticize the e-voting system can be read here . )
According to Kirillova, "there will be attempts to discredit the course of the election campaign and its results."
She also clarified that this year a self-nominated mayor would need to collect 38,000 signatures and enlist the support of at least 110 municipal deputies.
In May, it became known that the current mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, would run for a new term from the United Russia party, and not as an independent candidate, as before. For Sobyanin, the mayoral elections will be the third.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sobyanin performed at the Luzhniki Stadium at a rally-concert in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea. The concert was held under the slogan “For a world without Nazism! For Russia! For the President!