Democratic coalition on Monday officially presented the list of winners of the primaries in the Kaluga region – the second of the three regions, which intends to fight for seats in the Legislative Assembly. The primary election was attended by only 385 people. The low turnout of the opposition says that the primaries were primarily designed to mobilize assets. Without excluding other reason – a split in the democratic camp. So says an expert.
In the Kaluga region were primaries democratic coalition, previously formed on the basis of the RPR-Parnassus, unregistered Party of Progress Alexei Navalny and several other smaller political forces.
On Monday, the democratic coalition officially presented the winners of the primaries: they became co-founder of “Disserneta” Andrew Zayakin (known Investigations Learn how doct-z), a human rights activist, head of the Kaluga branch of RPR-Parnassus Tatyana Kotlyar and entrepreneur from Maloyaroslavets Igor Kuznik.
For two days, from 20 to 21 June, in the primaries voted 385 voters, out of which 64 people have chosen the candidate online, 321 – offline.
Just a list of candidates was nine.
Who will head the list of Kaluga coalition will determine the regional branch of RPR-Parnassus. According to Tatyana Kotlyar, a party meeting at which the matter will be decided, will take place no later than June 25th. Kotlyar itself won the primaries 209 votes behind the leader Zayakina vote only 16. Kotlyar states before the primaries coalition representatives held informal talks with her that it was she who will head the list. According to the politician, the decision will be based on “what is better for the party list.”
Deputy Director of the Center for Political Technologies Alexei Makarkin believes that the question of who will head the list, is now relegated to the background. The main problem is the overall weakness of the candidates, which in fact define “the Internet community».
And Kotlyar, and there are serious Zayakina ‘vulnerability to the image point of view. ” Andrew Zayakin “Varyag”, better known in the network environment and to Kotlyar voters may have questions relating to her human rights activities among migrants.
As previously wrote “Times” democratic coalition intends to compete for the seats in the Legislative Assembly in three regions: in addition to Kaluga, Kostroma, and Novosibirsk this area.
Three winners Novosibirsk primaries, which as a result led the party list and were presented June 15: is the head of the local branch of RPR-Parnassus Savin Egor, artist and leader of the “Monstration ‘Artem Loskutov and businessman Sergey Boyko.
In the primaries in the Novosibirsk region in 1104 was voted the voter.
Preliminaries will be held in the Kostroma region on June 27-28. The most well-known candidates are out there – “Vikings”, member of the Federal Bureau of RPR-Parnas Ilya Yashin and former deputy governor Vladimir Andreichenko.
is not mobilized voters and supporters
The primaries in Kaluga was not without internal divisions. A few days prior to the voting on the refusal to participate in it announced the former deputy of the Legislative Assembly Sergey Fadeev, and before that – the former mayor of Kaluga Vitaliy Chernikov.
Chernikov scared gain a split in the democratic camp – problems between ideologically close RPR-Parnassus and “Civil Initiatives”.
Fadeev program criticized the coalition for the substitution of the local federal agenda . In facebook, he called the turnout in the primaries failed, it is estimated that in the Novosibirsk region in the primaries participated 0.052% of the electorate, and in Kaluga – 0,048%.
However, the organizers do not agree with him.
The leader of the “Democratic Choice” Vladimir Milov Learn recalled that the primaries come around one and a half times more people than at the time to vote in elections to the Coordinating Council opposition, although it is a regional event, not federal scale. Yes, and no candidates – political stars.
«The attendance of nearly 400 people – it is a very good sign, it’s almost 10% of the number of signatures for the party list, which must be collected. Can you imagine what a valuable asset to the campaign. So that the procedure was not useless at all “- summed up Milov.
Co-ordinator of the campaign,” Democratic Choice “Kirill Shulika said” Gazeta.ru “that Russia is a problem with the party culture, almost no mass parties so the Liberals spend primaries for active supporters: “In the US it (voting in the primaries. -” Times “) have been members of the party. So that’s nearly 400 members of the party in the region – is very good. In Kaluga, I personally think that a person would be 300, but it was better. ”
Shulika says that now forms the democratic coalition headquarters in Kaluga on the basis of those already working. It will include identified in the primary active supporters. Many voters will be collecting signatures a full day, the rest will be for family and friends: “There are collectors from Moscow and neighboring regions. It is important that we have four single-mandate, its headquarters, they will also collect signatures for the party, that is, the two sheets “, – says the source” Gazety.Ru “.
The deputy head of the political conjuncture Oleg Ignatov said that, in contrast to the “United Russia”, for which the primaries and their results – a measure of capacity to mobilize supporters and the effectiveness of Party activists in the region, “the Democrats’ primaries indicate the level their recognition that it is not necessary to check or increase the United Russia.
«Final lowest turnout for early voting coalition shows its low recognition, which is the main prerequisite for their successful performance in the elections,” – says the analyst.
According to him, the results of the primaries so far show that the work carried out to improve the recognition did not bring any “breakthrough”. However, the experience of the Moscow campaign Navalny shows that the key will still events of recent months underscores Ignatov.
Deputy Director of the Center for Political Technologies, Alexei Makarkin believes that the primaries were needed democratic coalition for the election mobilization “asset “. The expert believes that the cause of problems with the turnout could be the previous “split” among Democrats. Given the fact that in the Novosibirsk region, they will compete with the “Apple”, and in the Kaluga region – from “Civil Initiatives”, the passage in the Legislative Assembly of the region on the list of at least one of the candidate will be a “great success”: “It is unlikely that they will be expect a better result. Even a single candidate will be extremely difficult to carry out. ”
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