Sobyanin is against mayoral candidates’ revoking

Russia July 19, 2013, 13:48

Moscow's acting mayor urges all other candidates to continue campaign

MOSCOW, July 19 (Itar-Tass) - All registered candidates for the upcoming Moscow mayoral election due on September 8 should continue the campaign, Moscow’s Acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told reporters on Friday.

“I consider as incorrect revoking of candidates,” he said commenting on the situation, where a candidate from RPR-PARNAS Alexei Navalny may revoke his candidature.

“We have spent much effort - to make it so that Muscovites had a maximum choice - to register both Navalny and other candidates,” Sobyanin said. “I believe it is necessary to make it so that all registered candidates continued their participation in the election.”

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