EP begins the debate in the primaries before the Duma elections – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, April 2 – RIA Novosti The debate participants advance voting (primaries) of “United Russia” will start on Saturday and will be held on weekends until May 15; based on their results at the party congress candidates will be determined in June, which will then participate in the elections to the State Duma

Elections to the lower house of the seventh convocation of the Parliament will be held in September on a mixed system: half of the deputies will be elected in single member constituencies, the other half -. according to party lists. Until that time, May 22, United Russia will hold a nationwide preliminary vote, applications for participation in which will be accepted until April 10 to more than 15 the number of candidates to complete the registration. Agitation period will end on the eve of the party primaries – 21 May.

At the end of March, United Russia, held a pre-election educational forum “candidate” for the participants of the primaries. Participation in it took the party chairman, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, as well as 45 State Duma deputies, experts and lecturers. Designed forum was primarily on those for whom the experience of participating in the elections first.

The procedures for the debate

The debate, along with the absence of a criminal record and foreign accounts are one of the main requirements of the primaries. They are engaged in the organization and conduct of regional organizing committees. nearly 4 hundreds of debates will be held in the first two days – 2 April in all regions there will be 215, and the next day 167 (73 subjects).

In some debates can participate from two to six members, but immediately before the beginning of their agitation allowed free in any format. In March, at the meeting of the Federal Organizing Committee for the advance polls, United Russia approved the list of the general federal performances. Total as told at the meeting of the General Council of the party deputy secretary Olga Batalina proposed five topics. At the same regions may suggest additional topics, based on the specifics of the region, but approved – required

The first theme -. The fight against corruption and waste, as well as ensuring transparency of power and efficiency of budget spending. The second theme involves education, Health and Social Policy. The third is devoted to the economic and industrial policy and business support. The development of agriculture and food security have been the subject of the fourth theme. . The latter is dedicated to the quality of daily life, housing and communal services, housing and comfortable urban environment

It will be conducted and broadcast debate – at the pre-voting site in the online mode, it will be obligatory. Earlier, the party secretary of the General Council Sergei Neverov said that discussing the possibility of a broadcast on regional TV channels, but this will depend on the capabilities of the region. Furthermore, their lights will be engaged, and social networks. So, specified RIA Novosti on the party in the “Classmates” for this special group will be created.

Members primaries

Earlier Neverov said that among the current State Duma deputies of the “United Russia” to date registered to participate in party primaries less than a half. For example, he Neverov will take part in the primaries (and debate) in the Smolensk region, and Batalina – in Saratov, secretary of the Moscow branch of the party Nikolay Gonchar – in Moscow. To participate in the primaries EP has already filed documents and State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin.

In addition, participation in the primaries, and, consequently, in the debate, will take a number of representatives of the All-Russia People’s Front (ONF) – both from regional offices and from the central headquarters

For example, the co-chairman. the central headquarters of the movement Olga Timofeeva, retractable at the same time on a single-seat constituency and regional list, will take part in the primaries in his native Stavropol Territory. Advisor to the head of the executive committee of the organization Anton Guetta, who earlier headed the project “For Fair procurement”, will run from the EP of the Rostov region, the deputy head of the central executive committee of the ONF Natalia Kostenko go and how single-seat districts, and regspisku of the Krasnodar Territory. Coordinator of the Public Monitoring Centre ONF Forest Ecology and Protection Challenges Vladimir Gutenev will “debate” in the Samara region, member of the central headquarters of the movement Mikhail Starshinov – Karachay-Cherkessia, and the co-chairman of the Moscow headquarters ONF Vyacheslav Lysakov – in Moscow

Nomination for lists EP or single-mandate constituency would “veterans” to try to force in the Duma elections, but did not enter the party structure, thus the movement will remain non-partisan.

primaries ─ intra-party elections, the meaning of which ─ identify the strongest and popular among the candidate of the party voters, who with her support will then participate in major elections. For the first time in Russia held primaries “United Russia” in 2011. Today it is the only party that uses a mechanism of inner-selection of candidates in the formation of the federal and regional lists before the election.