Russia's election commission says Navalny can not run for presidency

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | 9:53am EDT

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny can not run for presidency because of his criminal conviction, the Central Election Commission, said in a statement on Friday.

"Navalny does not have passive suffrage," said the statement, meaning he was ineligible to run for office.

Navalny was found guilty of embezzlement in February and given a five-year suspended prison sentence in a court case he says was organized to stop him running for president.

(Reporting by Kevin O'Flynn; editing by Vladimir Soldatkin)


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-navalny-presidency-idUSKBN19E1KW

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[Sunlei]

1. Republicans use that same old 'pig law' legal trick a lot to exclude Americans from jobs & voting

As MLK said, "Remember, everything Hitler did was legal."

[byronius]

2. I just learned what 'pig laws' are; you made me look it up. Thank you.

'“Pig Laws” unfairly penalized poor African Americans for crimes such as stealing a farm animal. And vagrancy statutes made it a crime to be unemployed. Many misdemeanors or trivial offenses were treated as felonies, with harsh sentences and fines.'

Plus, your sig line is awesome. Instantly cool.

[Bayard]

3. Rachel covered this awhile back

Navalny was charged with this bogus claim precisely so he could not run against Putin.

[Marksman_91]

4. Wonder what those of the Putin fanclub in this forum are gonna say about this

Aren't they also in the same fanclub for Chavismo and other authoritarian regimes around the world?

[Sunlei]

5. they can't hear you. Currently post to destablise middle east. Russia needs buyers for his oil/gas.

[Igel]

6. That's actually funny.

One of the countries helping Maduro is Russia.

Gotta hurt, having your socialist hero propped up by a fascist dictator. Or having the fascist you love prop up a socialist thug.

They have things in common, sort of, and it nicely produces negative solidarity.

For some, allies are about power. For others, about morality. As long as the moral are powerful, it's hard to spot the difference. But when the immoral or amoral wield power, stipulating that your allies must be as righteous and moral as you is lunacy.

Stalin was horrible. Possibly worse in many ways than Hitler. And yet FDR struck an alliance with Stalin against Hitler, not because of Stalin's and the USSR's great virtue and morality but because of the need to be against Hitler. (It's unclear to me exactly how much of the USSR's initiative FDR actually disliked: Hoover dam and the large ironworks and dam construction in the USSR are very similar. But empowering the little man by centralizing power in the hands of a few who knew better and could manage the population was all the rage.)

[Blue_Tires]

7. Greenwald and Taibbi were unavailable for comment...

[Txbluedog]

8. Why are they even bothering to have elections?

Just declare Putin Tsar Vladimir I and Russia an absolute monarchy and be done with it. He can marry his daughter to a Romanov and then his grandkids can claim "royal lineage"