The leader of Russia's Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, on Wednesday registered as the party's presidential candidate for the March 2 elections, Russian news agencies reported.
Zyuganov was officially nominated as his party's candidate for the presidential election on Dec. 15. The Communist Party obtained11.57 percent of votes in recent parliamentary elections.
The presidential race formally kicked off in Russia on Nov. 28 and the date for elections to choose a successor to Putin is set for March 2, 2008.
Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky also registered with the Central Election Commission on Wednesday as the party's candidate for the presidential elections, and is the first presidential contender to formally pass all the Central Election Commission nomination and registration procedures.
Zhirinovsky, who has led the LDPR since its foundation in 1991 has run in the parliamentary and presidential elections during the past decade, except for the 2004 presidential elections, in which LDPR member Oleg Malyshkin represented the party as its 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 remain as deputy speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
Source: Xinhua
|
Comment
Tell A Friend
Print Format
Save Article