The leader of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), Vladimir Zhirinovsky, on Wednesday registered as the party's presidential candidate for the elections on March 2, 2008, Russian news agencies reported.
Zhirinovsky is the first presidential contender to formally pass all nomination and registration procedures of the Central Election Commission.
As leader of the LDPR since its foundation in 1991, Zhirinovskyran in parliamentary and presidential elections over the past decade, except for the 2004 presidential elections, in which LDPR member Oleg Malyshkin represented the party as a presidential hopeful.
Zhirinovsky, 60, rocketed into the limelight in the early 1990s.
The Liberal Democratic Party obtained 8.14 percent of the vote in the last parliamentary elections, allowing Zhirinovsky to keep his post as deputy speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
Source: Xinhua
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