Alexei Navalny 2013 mayoral campaign
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, which took effect on June 1, 2012. On February 14, 2013, Sobyanin declared the next elections would be held in 2015, and a snap election would be unwanted by Muscovites, and on March 1, he proclaimed he wanted to run for a second term as a mayor of Moscow in 2015.
| 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 |
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