MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Yavlinsky unsuccessfully ran for president in 1996 and 2000, and attempted to take part in the 2012 elections, but his candidacy was refused by the Central Elections Committee.
"We believe that our party will participate most actively in what will be called ‘presidential elections’. I am a presidential candidate from the Yabloko party," Yavlinsky told reporters.
Grigory Yavlinsky intends to participate in the presidential elections of 2018 https://t.co/B5GuLPAjxk pic.twitter.com/QEzKwZu4yq #Russia
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The Yabloko party failed to win the threshold of 5 percent of the votes in the Russian parliamentary elections which took place Sunday.
