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| Campaigned for | 2013 Moscow mayoral election |
|---|---|
| Candidate | Alexei Navalny |
| Affiliation | Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party |
| Status | Announced 3 June 2013 Lost election: 8 September 2013 |
| Slogan | Change Russia, Start with Moscow |
In 2010, after the long-standing mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov's resignation, then-President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev appointed Sergey Sobyanin for a five-year term. After the protests sparked in December 2011, Medvedev responded to that by a series of measures supposed to make political power more dependent on voters and increase accessibility for parties and candidates to elections; in particular, he called for re-establishing elections of heads of federal subjects of Russia,[1] which took effect on June 1, 2012.[2] On February 14, 2013, Sobyanin declared the next elections would be held in 2015, and a snap election would be unwanted by Muscovites,[3] and on March 1, he proclaimed he wanted to run for a second term as a mayor of Moscow in 2015.[4]
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- ^ "Мэр Москвы Сергея Собянин намерен баллотироваться на второй срок в 2015 году". Echo.msk.ru. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-30.