Court Orders Reconsideration of Ogloblin's Duma Registration
The Perm court ordered the election commission to review the registration of Alexey Ogloblin. The Leninsky District Court of Perm ruled the refusal to register activist Alexey Ogloblin as a candidate for the city Duma illegal.
Consensus
- The Leningrad District Court in Perm ruled that the election commission's decision to deny Alexey Ogloblin registration as a State Duma candidate was unlawful.
- The election commission must reconsider Ogloblin's registration application.
- Ogloblin is a Perms-based human rights defender and activist.
- Ogloblin submitted approximately 230 signatures, with 181 meeting the requirements set by the election commission.
- The court accepted Ogloblin's argument that signature discrepancies were due to handwriting characteristics and not invalidity.
- The election commission previously rejected six signatures, citing issues such as incorrect dates.
- Ogloblin claimed that some signers' data could not be verified in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, despite their personal confirmation of registration.
Points of divergence
- Ogloblin was running for the State Duma, not the city council. — tg_sotavisionmedia
- Ogloblin was running for the city council, not the State Duma. — tg_horizontal_russia
- The election commission rejected six signatures based on 'corrections' that were actually handwriting features. — tg_sotavisionmedia
- One signature was rejected due to a date error (2020 instead of 2026), and Ogloblin submitted a statement from the signer confirming the 2026 date, which the commission did not consider. — tg_horizontal_russia
- The election commission stated it only works with documents and does not consider voter opinions. — tg_sotavisionmedia
- Ogloblin had previously challenged decisions of the city administration and police actions in court. — tg_horizontal_russia
Coverage (2 sources)
- Court ordered election commission to review decision on refusal to register independent candidate for State Duma Alexey Ogloblin — SOTAvision
- Perm court ordered election commission to review registration of Alexey Ogloblin — 7х7 — Горизонтальная Россия