Khodorkovsky wants out of jail in Duma
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has agreed to become a candidate for the State Duma deputies on the 201 th University District of Moscow. Put forward his initiative group. However, some people claimed it renounce its membership.
CEC Chairman Alexander Veshnyakov, in turn, explained that after the court decision comes into force the parliamentary mandate Khodorkovsky, even if he is elected, will be taken away.
In addition Veshnyakov explained that "every person has the right to be elected, if not in custody under a court order or if it has been declared incapacitated by a court. But as soon as the verdict comes into force, the parliamentary mandate for the defendant shown.
Writer and editor in chief of "Tomorrow" Prokhanov, appeared in the list of nominees announced an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda that his participation "does not correspond to reality, nothing like I said, and in general I think this campaign ineffective and nestrategichnoy.
According to experts, the nomination of Mr Khodorkovsky is doomed to failure. He never pretended to political independence, and now his body is essentially a puppet and indecisiveness.
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