Navalny party dissolved by the Supreme Court of Russia

The Russian Supreme Court on Monday dissolved the political party “Russia of the Future”, founded by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, hospitalized in Germany after being poisoned with the neurotoxic agent Novichok, according to European laboratories.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a petition to that effect filed by the Ministry of Justice, the Court informed local media.

The argument for the verdict rests on the fact that “Russia of the Future” is the name of another political formation led by Alexander Zorin, a lawyer close to the Kremlin and who applied for registration after Navalny.

Navalny tried several times to register political parties, but the Ministry of Justice rejected all requests for formal reasons and other reasons, which the opponent considers manufactured.

Since securing almost a third of the votes in the elections for the Moscow municipality in 2013, Navalny has denounced an official campaign to prevent him from pursuing political activity.

Due to a criminal record, the electoral commission prevented him from facing Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2018 presidential elections.

For this reason, Navalny devised the “Smart Vote” campaign, which calls on voters to support in the various ballots any candidate who is likely to defeat the United Russia representative, Putin’s party.

After using this formula in the 2019 municipal elections in Moscow, Navalny again proposed the same option in the recent regional elections, but was poisoned while campaigning in Siberia.

The opposition proposes to use the same method in the 2021 legislatures, with the aim of removing the parliamentary majority from United Russia.

Navalny on Monday demanded that the Russian authorities return the clothes he was wearing when he was poisoned at a hotel in the Siberian city of Tomsk.

The Tomsk Ministry of Health argued that the clothing was confiscated by investigative bodies that took control of the case.

Germany and France denounced an “assassination attempt” by Navalny, but Moscow responded by accusing them of politicizing the case, demanding Berlin data from the opponent’s toxicological analyzes.

The German government, which denounced Navalny’s poisoning with Novichok, a neurotoxic substance designed by Soviet and military experts, announced a week ago that laboratories in France and Sweden also confirmed that the opponent was poisoned.

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