Hello and welcome to the details of Russian Communists pit political veteran against Putin and now with the details
Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Nikolai Kharitonov, member of the Russian State parliament Duma, casts his ballot as he votes for a presidential candidate during the Russian Communist Party’s congress ahead of next year’s presidential election in the village of Rozhdestveno, Moscow region, on December 23, 2023. ― AFP pic
ROZDHESTVENO, Russia, Dec 23 ― The Communist Party of Russia, the second largest party in parliament, today selected a 75-year-old to stand next March in presidential polls against Vladimir Putin.
At a party congress in the Moscow region, the members held a single-candidate vote backing Nikolai Kharitonov.
He won just under 14 percent of the national vote when he stood against Putin in 2004.
“Kharitonov’s candidacy was supported by an overwhelming majority of congress participants in a secret ballot,” said fellow Communist Alexander Yushchenko, quoted by Interfax news agency.
Advertisement
The ballot paper had a single name on it: Kharitonov’s.
The Communist Party of Russia, led since 1993 by Gennady Zyuganov, fielded an alternative candidate in 2018 presidential polls.
On paper the Communist Party is in opposition, but in practice it backs up Putin’s party, United Russia.
Advertisement
If victorious in next March's polls, Putin could stay in power until 2030.
A fan of martial arts, Kharitonov worked as a collective farm manager in Siberia in the Soviet era.
He later became a member of the Agrarian party, an offshoot of the Communists.
This week at a party conference, Kharitonov praised the Soviet forced collectivisation of agriculture as a “correct reform that allowed us to resolve the food problem on the eve of a great war”.
He said today that “our task is to consolidate the people during the election campaign so that there is victory, victory on all fronts”. ― AFP
These were the details of the news Russian Communists pit political veteran against Putin for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.
It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at Malay Mail and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source.
