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  Yavlinsky's Kremlin Bid in Jeopardy
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Last EditedRalphie  Jan 24, 2012 05:56am
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AuthorJonathan Earle
News DateTuesday, January 24, 2012 11:55:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionLiberal stalwart Grigory Yavlinsky faces exclusion from the March 4 presidential election after many signatures submitted to register his candidacy were ruled inadmissible by the Central Elections Commission.

Yavlinsky, with support of about 1 percent, poses no threat to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is expected to win the election, and his Yabloko party said his problems looked like revenge for the role that Yabloko election monitors played in exposing violations in last month's State Duma elections.

The Central Elections Commission, however, confirmed that another independent candidate, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, was well on his way toward winning a spot on the presidential ballot after only a few errors were found in a sampling of the signatures he submitted.

Commission secretary Nikolai Konkin said Monday that an initial check had disqualified about 23 percent of Yavlinsky's more than 2 million signatures, including 79,000 allegedly photocopied signatures.
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