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On Saturday in a Moscow hotel “Youth” met the leader of the liberal political forces to discuss with the experts participating in the elections 2015- 2016. Opportunity for discussion was created on the eve – Progress Party leader Alexei Navalny and RPR-Parnas Mikhail Kasyanov announced the formation of a coalition to contest the elections. Behind the liberal wing parties collectors backdrop hung with the contour boundaries of Russian version of last year – without the Crimea and difficult to distinguish from the Kaliningrad region. “We do not recognize the annexation of the Crimea. This Russian border recognized by the international community, “- pause, answered the question about the relevance of RBC card coordinator of” Open Russia “Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Electoral Bloc – a de facto one organization, with no formal association of parties. With these words, Mikhail Kasyanov, remaining only co RPR-Parnassus after the murder Nemtsov, opened in Moscow on Saturday roundtable “Elections 2015-2016. The agenda for the opposition. ” Bulk explained on the liberal wing of five parties that are talking about the same, which are always on the same platform. To eliminate the duality, we want to say that the party on the basis of which we will go to the polls – RPR-Parnassus. Kasyanov and Bulk sat on the podium, surrounded by leaders of the “democratic elections” Vladimir Milov, “Civil Initiative” Andrei Nechayev – both agreed to join the coalition. The block will also include unregistered party on December 5 and the Libertarian Party. According to Navalny, a union are still waiting for “Apple”, but the party leader Sergei Mitrokhin so far ignored an invitation to join the Union.
But the desire to join RBC said Gozman and his movement “Union of Right Forces” . However, he admitted that it has not yet been invited. Many members of the RPR-Parnassus natives of ATP Gozman who blame a compromise with the government and the destruction of the PCA. Therefore, the mere presence on the podium Gozman roundtable drew criticism and confusion among the majority of respondents RBC coalition members.
«Open Russia” Mikhail Khodorkovsky has already expressed support for the coalition. According to Kara-Murza, experts and lawyers movement will help candidates from opposition groups to collect signatures for the registration of voters in regional elections in 2015.
Change party candidates
RPR-Parnassus give their electoral lists for the nomination of candidates for the Allies as the only party in the block, which has the right to participate in elections. In addition, the party has benefit for admission to the State Duma elections in 2016, thanks to the parliamentary mandate of Boris Nemtsov in the Yaroslavl region. But this coalition could lose benefits. Under current law, the participation of the party in the elections to the federal parliament can be realized in the case of existing offices in one of the regional legislative assemblies. However, close to the Kremlin Fund ISEP already recommended to tighten this requirement by increasing the number of regional offices to two or three.
According to the Russian electoral legislation, RPR-Parnassus have to nominate for election just as many candidates as nominated a total of five other members of the coalition parties. Otherwise, they will not register lists. On the question of RBC if there is enough RPR-Parnassus candidates in the regions in order to close half of the list of the coalition, said Navalny. According to him, this is a technical issue and it will be dealt with in accordance with the law, it is possible that some candidates will have to join the RPR-Parnassus.
to select candidates for the nomination of the opposition plan in two phases: the identification of the most promising candidates in the regions, followed by the passage of the primaries. Navalny supporter Leonid Volkov said RBC that details about the plans to nominate candidates and their registration in the election commissions will be announced April 22 at a press conference. Exactly bloc candidates will be selected “cabal”, the formation of the lists will be open Navalny said.
The coalition finally decided on the regions, which will run for the Legislative Assembly this September. Just a single day of voting – 2015 elected 11 regional parliaments. Opposition plans to participate in at least half of these elections. Discusses participation in election campaigns Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Kostroma, Voronezh regions, as well as in St. Petersburg.
Political analyst Alexander Kanev believes that the joint efforts of the liberal parties will help solve the financial, organizational and personnel problems. He also warned the coalition members from the merger parties, which may result in a lot of personal conflicts that can affect the joint venture. The expert believes that the election bloc will be able to attract voters in the regions, if they do not oppose the liberal ideology of the real socio-economic agenda, and focus on the problems of specific regions. In the regions, there was a request to alternative political force, but the result of the election depends on the position of power. “In the past year were adopted repressive amendments to the electoral law, the registration of candidates and lists were tightened, and now participate in elections the opposition parties depends on the tacit approval of the authorities,” – reminiscent of Kanev.
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