Compiled a new rating of governors: the trio of leaders – Russian Newspaper

Compiled a new rating of governors: the trio of leaders – Russian Newspaper

Civil Society Development Foundation (FoRGO) was the next rating of governors – the first after the regional elections. Most governors who have successfully completed the election campaign, have strengthened their position in the ranking. However, there was a change of the first three: the reason was the weakening of Rustam Minnikhanov (Republic of Tatarstan). The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, has returned to the top ten.

Recall that the previous rating was published before the election of regional governors, which were held in 30 regions of Russia on 14 September. As said, summing up, chairman Konstantin Kostin FoRGO results single day of voting evidence: Russian society is consolidated around the government. Governors are still divided into four groups depending on the position in the ranking – the last of them in the press dubbed the “group of death”.

The number of regional leaders who have changed the group, this time low, explain the drafters of the rating. It Alexei Orlov (Republic of Kalmykia, moved from group III in II) and Nicholas Cukanov (Kaliningrad region, from the III IV). The remaining chapters regions migrate within their own groups.

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– Changes are primarily determined by the results of a single day of voting and such characteristics of the election campaign, as openness, competition and legitimacy, – concluded in FoRGO. In the calculation of the rating took a regional election (election of senior officials and members of legislative bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation) and municipal elections of different levels.

The experts negatively evaluated unnecessarily high level of early voting in some regions, that was one of the reasons for the decline of some governors position, despite the good results in the elections. The fifth issue was a change of the first three. Previously, she looked like – Dmitry Kobylkin (Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, Anatoly Artamonov (Kaluga region), Rustam Minnikhanov (Republic of Tatarstan). This latter two shared 2nd and 3rd place. Minnikhanov But now weakened the position and takes place 4-5. This fund explained unnecessarily high levels of early voting in the region in the elections to the State Council. The structure of the first three came Yevgeny Savchenko (Belgorod region, position 1).

Changes have also occurred in the top ten, where he returned Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (6 positions). two main reasons. First – held in the capital campaign was evaluated by independent experts and observers as a transparent and competitive. As a result formed a solid majority in the Moscow City Duma, representatives of the “United Russia” and independent candidates endorsed by the mayor. second reason – the background information on the accident in the Moscow metro ceased to have any significant negative impact on the rating.

In addition, the drafters of the rating is celebrating the success of Andrei Bocharov (Volgograd region) and Boris Dubrovsky (Chelyabinsk region) . The success of the elections and the holding of public campaign allowed them to add, respectively, 3 and 2 positions in the ranking. In group II, electoral success is to improve the results of Vladimir Miklushevsky (Primorsky Krai, 3), Rustem Khamitov (Republic of Bashkortostan, 2). Experts point out also the governor of the Ivanovo region Kon’kova Paul, praising his role in the conduct of open and fair elections (3). In this case, attention is drawn to a significant deterioration in positions Georgy Poltavchenko (St. Petersburg, -5). As the cause of experts called inexplicably high level of early voting in the election of the governor, as well as a large number of complaints in the municipal elections in St. Petersburg.

Problems with early voting also led to the deterioration of products Nicholas Merkoushkin (Samara region, -3) and Valery Shantsev (Nizhny Novgorod region, -3). Also in Group III fixed strengthening of the position of several governors, among which stands Eugene Kuyvasheva (Sverdlovsk region. 5). Experts welcomed emerging in the region tend to form intra-elite consensus around the governor.

Last – IV – Group rankings, despite its scarcity, has changed. It moved them more successful band Nikolai Cukanov (Kaliningrad Oblast), who lost for the time of the rating, a total of 14 positions. Now Cukanov “dipped” for another 4 points: the reason, as noted in the fund, became negative dynamics recorded in the polls, as well as assessment experts who drew attention to the problems with the execution of decrees and orders of the President of the Russian Federation and the deterioration of relations between the revenues and expenditures of citizens. Significant impact on its position in the ranking had scandals conflict of interest on the basis of tenders for the supply of medical equipment, which the company won “Amatel” belonging mother and brother of the governor. Once the company has ceased to participate in the competitions – the amount of contracts decreased significantly. In addition, Kaliningrad region, reminiscent of FoRGO, is an outsider among the regions involved in the preparations for the World Cup in 2018.

The rankings, as before, we used data of the Fund “Public Opinion” , the Federal State Statistics Service, the National Service of monitoring indicators of social well-being of regions of Russia, as well as estimates of the federal and regional experts.