Court upholds ban on Navalny working for president

Russia’s top court has upheld a resolution barring opposition chief Alexei Navalny from working for president in March.

The forty one-year-dilapidated lawyer announced his candidacy final week, but Russia’s Central Election Commission later ruled that he might possibly well well additionally no longer win segment in the elecions attributable to an earlier conviction for fraud.

Navalny replied by filing an appeal, which was once, nonetheless, pushed apart by the Supreme Court on Saturday.

Quickly after the upholding of the ban, Navalny conventional Twitter to call on his supporters to boycott the March 18 vote.

A staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny rose to prominence in Russian politics in 2008. 

He was once the driving pressure on the encourage of enormous anti-Putin protests in 2011 and 2012, rallying tens of 1000’s of of us across the country.

In 2013, he was once first sentenced on embezzlement charges, after being accused of defrauding the Kirov regional budget of about $270,000.

The European Court of Human Rights final year quashed the ruling.

As a result, Russia’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial.

Final February, in a retrial of the 2013 case, Kirov metropolis court handed down a five-year suspended jail sentence and a powerful of about $eight,500 to Navalny.

Navalny has always maintained that the conviction was once politically motivated.

Earlier, this month, Putin announced that he plans to flee for one other six-year duration of time.

Putin, sixty five, was once president from 1999 till 2008. He then served as high minister from 2008 till 2012, earlier than changing into president yet all yet again.

Polls uncover Putin is favoured to take the elections.