the Civic Platform was barred from the ballot because it had failed to open an official campaign bank account in time for registration. This was because Civic Platform's financial representative, Natalia Semyonova, had been detained and kept in a police station until the deadline for opening the bank account had passed. Local observers claimed that the real reasons for the exclusion were political. During the 2013 Russian regional elections several opposition candidates won elections, after mass-protests broke out across Russia during 2011–2013 after the 2011 legislative elections. The Civic Platform scored one notable victory when Yevgeny Roizman was elected mayor of Yekaterinburg. The party also won city council seats in Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk, and won 1–4 seats in four regions, making it the only new party formed after the 2012 party reform law to achieve such wide success. However, Prokhorov noted that the Kremlin did not allow proper competition for gubernatorial seats. "The most important points of control are governors and regional legislatures...The money is all at the level of governor". In the concurrent September 2013 gubernatorial elections, all of Civic Platform's candidates had been disqualified from running on formal and technical grounds. In early 2013, Prokhorov had said that he could run again in a future presidential election, saying: "If the Civic Platform continues to move ahead, further participation in presidential elections is a possibility". Between December 2013 and July 2014, the party was chaired by Prokhorov's sister, Irina. By May 2014, the party had gained 13 seats in regional parliaments, out of a total of 3,787. 2015–present In February 2015, some members from Civic Platform took part in the (pro-Putin) "anti-Maidan" demonstrations in Moscow. Prokhorov criticized them and said the rally had "little to do with the initial ideology of the Civil Platform party." "We will find other outlets for our projects," he added, and recommended that the party should change its name. The rally was attended by the party's head Rifat Shaykhutdinov. Shaikhutdinov was subsequently removed as leader by a vote of the party's members after the event, but he retained his position as chairman of the party's federal committee. In March, Prokhorov announced his decision to quit the party. In the 2016 legislative election, party leader Rifat Shaykhutdinov was elected to the State Duma. Shaykhutdinov did not vote in favour of the Medvedev II and the Mishustin Cabinet but usually supports the government's proposals. On 11