Russian presidential elections

Russian presidential elections determine who will serve as the president of Russia for the next six (formerly four from 1996 to 2012 and five from 1991 to 1996) years.

However, in this case, such party de jure will not participate in the election campaign, it will not be indicated in ballots, information stands and other official documents.

Candidates nominated by political parties with factions in the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) or in legislatures at least one-third of the federal subjects are exempt from collecting signatures and are automatically included in the ballots.

[14][15] To nominate an independent candidate, a meeting of the initiative group of voters must be held.

If, prior to the second round, one of the registered candidates to be voted on has withdrawn his candidacy or has left it for other reasons, his / her place shall, by the decision of the Central Election Commission, be transferred to the next registered candidate by the number of votes obtained.

A new candidate shall be put to the vote if there is a written Declaration of consent to participate in the second round of elections.

Such application must be submitted to them no later than the second day after the departure of the candidate who initially participated in the second round.

At the end of the second round, the candidate with a simple majority of votes is considered elected.

[23] According to the technical task set by the CEC, 91,400 election stations were covered by the video monitoring system.

[24] Public access to election observation was carried out on a special web site.

In addition, cameras were installed for the first time in the territorial election commissions, which carry out the counting of votes at the level of cities and districts.