Pro-Kremlin experts predicted reduction in the number of parties in the two-thirds – RBC

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To 2021 will be about 25 political parties, the report said close to the Kremlin in Russia Fund ISEP. Party-spoilers will be eliminated by changing the electoral law, experts say

close to the Kremlin ISEP Fund prepared a report entitled “The Party Russian field on the eve of a single voting day 2016″, which refers to the development of the dynamics of non-parliamentary parties and the prospects of party space by 2021.

The report, in particular, noted that the introduction of qualification systems for small batches in 2014 dramatically inhibited the activity of a purely political technology party projects.

«The elections to the State Duma in 2021 Russia, the party system will consist of about 25 parties, 14 parties will retain the registration by participating in the current parliamentary elections, and about ten parties will receive it through the nomination of candidates for the regional and municipal elections, “- said the head of ISSI Dmitry Badovsky RBC. The party system in this case will naturally cleared from most political technology parties, spoilers, the expert said. On the other hand, he said, nothing prevents the emergence of new parties, since the order of their registration remains the most liberal.

The introduction of the qualification system for small parties does not prevent to develop and expand the geography of participation in the election of small parties with their own ideology and extensive regional organizational structure, stressed Badovskiy. According to him, to date, about a dozen of these parties actually pretend to continue to actively develop and compete with the 14 parties’ license ».

in article 37 of the federal law “On political parties,” said the party will not be accepted for seven consecutive years of participation in the elections, is subject to liquidation. By participation in the elections means the registration of a federal list of candidates for the State Duma, the candidate of the registration of the party for the post of President, registration of candidates of the party for the post of head of the region is not less than 10% of the regions, as well as registration of candidates in at least 20% of elected legislative assemblies or local authorities at least half of the regions.

in the elections to the Legislative Assembly in 2016 to take advantage of a “regional benefits” could 17 small parties, the report said. Sign-up party lists on the basis of the collection of signatures could 40% of the parties, resulting in a deal with the collection of signatures in at least one region has 13 small parties.

The party system with 25 developing to some extent the political parties – this system is definitely a high level of openness and competition , and not the face – the number of registered parties, and functional – the number of actively participating in the elections parties emphasized Badovskiy .

Previously, experts Alexey Kudrin Committee of Civil Initiatives in its August report also warned of a reduction in the number of political parties to the 2019-2020 years. But they treated it as a reduction in competition. The report noted: the recently formed electoral restrictions were excessive, as a result of the 74 parties that have the right to nominate candidates for the State Duma, the opportunity to try to take advantage of only 25, and on the basis of their federal lists of congresses could assure the CEC only 18.

After the changed system of registration of candidates in 2014, turned a vicious circle: to take part in the elections need to have incentives, but to get the benefits, you need to participate in the elections, while RBC said one of the authors of the report, Alexander Kanev. According to him, the political system must be channels of admission of new forces, and they are “walled».

September 18, in a single day of voting, the election of deputies of the State Duma will be held in Russia, the election of 39 regional legislative assemblies and elections seven heads of regions. State Duma elections will be held on a mixed system: 225 deputies receive mandates on party lists, another 225 – in single-member constituencies.