09:17, 28 июля 2017, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Darya PODOLSKAYA
The CEC approved the signatures for the presidential candidate Temir Sariev. The decision was made the day before at its meeting.
Temir Sariev was the first of the candidates who submitted the signature sheets (60,155 sheets) in his support to the Central Election Commission. Representatives of the working group made a sample and sent the received signatures to graphologists for examination. 58, 612 of them were recognized as valid.
According to the latest information, 42 people are already running for presidency in the country. According to the law, in order to be officially registered as a candidate for the presidency, a candidate must provide at least 30,000 signatures in his support from the citizens of the country and make an electoral pledge of 1 million soms.