Her candidacy was withdrawn by the Petrozavodsk District Court two weeks prior to the election due to a violation of rules filling one of the documents.

After the election, Slabunova quit her job as a principal in one of the schools to become the chairwoman for the expert council for Shirshina in October 2013.

[2][3] Later on, she actively opposed the Head of the Republic of Karelia, Alexander Khudilaynen, seeking to remove her from the chair[2] due to a political escalation in the region as well as persecution of Yabloko members.

[5] On 19 December 2015, on the XVIII Party Conference, she was elected as the new leader of Yabloko, beating Alexander Gnezdilov, Nikolay Rybakov, and Lev Schlosberg, with the former two supporting her in the second tour.

[citation needed] On 4 July 2016, she was officially announced as the candidate for federal legislative election from Yabloko.