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Although by statute the list of candidates is kept secret for at least 50 yearsthe thousands of sponsors – among them, legislators and ministers of all countries, former laureates, academics – are free to reveal the identity of their candidate. A Norwegian populist right-wing MP has hinted that he will nominate Zelenskywhich has become a symbol of the resistance to the Russian invasion that began on February 24, 2022.
the same parliamentarian also submitted the name of his compatriot Stoltenbergwho, according to him, “Deserves the award for his exemplary work as NATO Secretary General in a difficult period for the alliance: the brutal and unprovoked offensive against a peaceful neighboring country”.
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The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is also on the list., nominated by the president of the Pakistani Senate for his peace efforts “before and during the Russo-Ukrainian war,” according to the AFP news agency. They also include opponents of the Putin regime, such as Alexey Navalny, and the journalist Vladimir Kara-Mourza.
“Today we know that the basis of this war is a Russian regime built on corruption and oppression”, said the Norwegian deputy who proposed Kara-Mourza’s candidacy. He “participate in the most important political fight to end the war in Ukraine and guarantee future peace in Europe”he argued, quoted by the NTB agency.
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Last year, the prize was awarded to the trio made up of the Russian NGO Memorial, whose dissolution was ordered by the Russian Justice, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and the Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, arrested. ANDn 2021, it was another Kremlin critic, journalist Dmitri Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, who was awarded with his Filipino colleague Maria Ressa, both recognized as heralds of press freedom threatened in both countries.
Henrik Urdal, Director of the Oslo Peace Research Instituteconsiders unlikely that the Nobel committee “award a third consecutive Russia-related award”. “Last year it was difficult for the committee to look beyond Ukraine because of how important and pervasive the conflict was, but it is also essential to highlight other international problems in other parts of the world,” added.
In recent years there has been speculation about the possibility of a Nobel Peace Prize for defenders of the environment. Norwegian environmental deputy lan marie berg announced today that it has nominated two young climate activists, lSwedish Greta Thunberg, 20 years old and whose name has been circulating for the award for several years, and Ugandan Vanessa Nakate, 27.
Source: Ambito