Preliminary voting, which determined the candidates of the party Parnas in the elections to the State Duma of Russia. May 28, 2016
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Parnas Guide independently form a list of candidates from the democratic coalition in the parliamentary elections after the failure of the primaries coalition
primaries democratic coalition does not take place, the decision to form a unified list for the elections will be discussed in the party at the level of the governing bodies of Parnassus, told RBC head of the election Commission of the primaries, the deputy chairman of Parnassus Constantine Merzlikin.
«primaries found there. They can not be summed up, – he explained. – However, the vote was, and for a while we got background information (at 12:00 on Sundays), which provides for further examination of the party, but not as a result of the »
Later the results of the primaries. bring is impossible, because it was clear that the vote is not wearing the correct character, and it was decided to him to stop, he added Merzlikin.
According to him, the party’s leadership in the near future should be to determine how to create a list of democratic coalition, that he “I look the most attractive to the voters” and consisted of people who share the values of the democratic coalition. “To what extent is rated members Coalition figures the results will be taken into account, which were published, probably, some results will be taken into account,” – he suggested the deputy chairman of Parnassus, adding that it was his personal opinion
Next Political Council Parnas. will be roughly on June 17 it will be approved a draft list of candidates from the coalition, and on June 18 the Congress will take the final decision.
on Monday night Parnassus on its official Facebook page said that as at 12:00 Sunday in the primaries in the lead blogger Vyacheslav Maltsev, who collected 5.4 thousand votes, second place went to the historian Andrei Zubov, received 1.6 thousand votes, the third place -.. one of the founders of the Party of December 5 Konstantin Jankauskas from 1.3 thousand votes.. Fourth place went to the head of the Moscow branch of the unregistered Party of Progress Nikolai Lyaskin 1 thousand votes, the fifth -. Nationalist Alexander Belov (Potkin) with 900 votes. Member Parnassus Natalia Pelevin took the sixth place.
After 12:00 on Sunday was decided to suspend the primaries procedure, as it became aware of the unauthorized collection of voters’ data and the presence of groups of bots in the voters list.
In turn, the leader of the Parnas Mikhail Kasyanov promised to partially take into account the results of the primaries. “Part of the results of the primaries will be considered. Still, a third of registered voters managed to vote, and to ignore their views, we can not “- he said the agency TASS
The organization of the democratic coalition primaries induces a shadow on the preliminary voting procedure, said Lyaskin.. “What happened is a blow to the institution of the primaries. Now all of our supporters may be a persistent rejection of this procedure, “- he said. Lyaskin “looking forward” solution Parnassus guidance on forming a coalition list. “To affect us no matter what can not. It’s some kind of absurd theater, the rules are changing on the fly, “-. He added
Even before the release of supporters Navalny of the democratic coalition in the coalition was a major conflict after Merzlikin he said that the primaries may be advisory he recalled.
Alex Bulk, commenting on the publication of the voters’ passwords primaries, apologized to his supporters for being called to participate in the primaries. “In connection with the publication of voters’ passwords primaries once again I want to apologize to those who went there to register for my call,” – wrote in his opposition on Twitter. He also said that after such executive heads of Parnassus should resign. “Shame and discredit and sabotage” – added Bulk
The deputy chairman Parnas Ilya Yashin, Alexei Navalny and fellow leader of the party “Democratic Choice” Vladimir Milov, announced its withdrawal from the democratic coalition on the basis of Parnassus in late April.. They accused Kasyanov in disrupting the organization and financing of early voting. In particular, the chairman of the party was accused of unwillingness to abandon the quota on the first place in the electoral list of the democratic coalition without participating in the primaries. Primaries coalition were to be 28 and 29 May, and to determine the opposition, which will be included in the regional and federal lists of the coalition. Topping the list is reserved for the federal Kasyanov for the chairman of the party has a license.