Moscow Oblast Gubernatorial Election, 2013
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Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election of 2013 was held on September 8, 2013 as part of regional Election Day, which consist elections in 9 other Oblasts and mayoral election in the federal city of Moscow.
A candidate to the office must be citizen of the Russian Federation over the age of 30. Self-nomination of candidates for the post of Governor of Moscow Oblast, and since June 2013 the candidate need to bring approvements to the Moscow Oblast Elections Commission that he has doesn't own any cash or money in Bans aboard, thus according to new Federal Law against corruption.
the candidate need to collect 351 signatures from every 54 cities of the Moscow Oblast, in support of the nomination and shall be made within 20 days of the official publication of the decision to call the election. Or alternatively these signatures are not needed for candidates from registered political party.
In the spring 2012, through the approval process by the regional legislature, The Moscow Oblast Duma, Sergei Shoigu was appointed as the Governor of Moscow Oblast. The United Russia party has proposed him to the post of governor and his candidacy was unanimously supported by the Moscow Regional Duma. Shoigu took into office on May 11, 2012, after the expiry of the term of office of the former governor, Boris Gromov.
In May 2012, by the initiative of President Dmitry Medvedev, a federal law has been approved and according to the law, the direct elections of regional governors have returned. The law came into force on 1 June 2012. According to this law the first election of senior officials was scheduled to be held on October 14, 2012 in some regions of the Russian Federation.
Six months after taking office, the governor Sergei Shoigu left after he was appointed as the Minister of Defense instead sacked Anatoly Serdyukov. On November 8, 2012, President Vladimir Putin has appointed Andrei Vorobyov, who previously headed the faction of "United Russia" in the State Duma.
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