Russia supreme court rules Kremlin critic cannot run for president
Source: The Guardian
Russia’s supreme court has upheld a ban on the government critic Alexei Navalny from running for president, a decision he has vowed to respond to with nationwide protests.
“We don’t recognise elections without competition,” Navalny wrote on Twitter after the ruling on Saturday. He did not attend the hearing, which his lawyers say they will appeal against at the European court of human rights.
The ruling was widely expected and came after Russia’s central election committee said on 25 December that Navalny, 41, was not allowed to stand for public office until at least 2028 because of a previous fraud conviction.
An anti-corruption lawyer with a huge online following, Navalny says the charges were trumped up to prevent him taking on Vladimir Putin in the presidential election in March. He says Putin, who has been in power for 18 years and is widely expected to win re-election, is only prepared to face handpicked rival candidates.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/30/russia-supreme-court-rules-kremlin-critic-alexei-navalny-cannot-run-president
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And they'd love it if (when???
) Trump can do the same. With his own SCOTUS to help him out.
They are that big of hypocrites. Scream when Democrats are in power that Obama will rip up the Constitution and declare marshall law and ban future elections. Yet when their orange fascist is in power they would say that they'd be in favor of a ban on all Democrats from running for President.
