The Central Election Committee accepted a second package of documents from a group of citizens, nominating George Kabisov as the presidential candidate in the upcoming elections on March 25. As reported to IA "Res" by the RSO CEC representative, "the package will be reviewed within legally established time ".
It should be noted that Georgy Kabisov (earlier holding a position of the Chairman of the State Committee of Information, Communication and Mass Media of South Ossetia) participated in the presidential elections on November, 13 2011, but he didn`t reach the presidential run-off, gaining 7.5% of the vote. It should be reminded, that December 27, 2011 the CEC of South Ossetia resumed its work in the same format. December 29 the Central Election Committee accepted a first set of documents from the initiative group nominating Vice Defense Minister Igor Alborov as the presidential candidate. Alborov was also registered as a presidential candidate in the November election, but withdrew his candidacy in support of Alan Kotaev.
