The rightist movement is in disorder as well: SPS (Union of Rightist Force) and Yabloko parties are thinking over whom to nominate the united candidate for the President from democratic movement. Co-chairman of SPS Irina Khakamada said all the parties and organizations constituted the democratic movement should have only one candidate for Presidency. She said currently the possible candidates are being considered by SPS party. There were rumors that the rightists conducted negotiations with President of Chuvashia Autonomous Republic Nikolai Fedorov and independent deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov. They both refused to run for Presidency, although a week before Ryzhkov did not oppose the idea so much. Probably, Ryzhkov’s refusal resulted from the disagreement of Yabloko leaders with nominating him candidate for Presidency. Ryzhkov has officially confirmed his refusal and said at the press-conference in the town of Barnaul that one of SPS leaders Boris Nemtsov offered him to run for Presidency as the united candidate from the democratic movement.
According to the deputy, he told Nemtsov that when campaigning for the Parliamentary elections he had no plans to run for Presidency. In addition, Ryzhkov would consider the offer of this kind to be serious only if both SPS and Yabloko parties make it.
Ryzhkov told that the congresses of both SPS and Yabloko will approximately be held on January 20. However, according to the electoral law, these parties which have no representatives in the Parliament will have to collect two million signatures for support of their candidate until January 28, which is hard to organize and finance. “If SPS and Yabloko could not elaborate the united candidate so far, they will not have such a candidate”, Ryzhkov said.
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