Sunday, September 14, 2014

Election of familiar faces – Kommersant

Election of familiar faces – Kommersant

Turnout in the first after the annexation of the Crimea to the Russian elections in the republic’s State Council and the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol was about 45%. Could vote and Ukrainian passports with the local registration. Although voter lists were compiled according to the FMS and crawl through every apartment residents election officials, they did not have many voters, including the interim head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov. Most Crimeans admitted that they voted for the “United Russia”, because “there Putin” and they – “for Russia.” According to exit polls, the party in power in the Crimea has received more than 70% of the vote.

At the polling stations N294 and N295 at school N10 in the street Heroes of Stalingrad in Simferopol already from eight in the morning was a lot of wishing to vote. Within 20 minutes of ten voters do not appear in the list of grounds N295, including the interim head of the Crimea, the leader party list of “United Russia” in the elections to the State Council Sergei Aksenov. It made a supplementary list. Press Secretary Mr. Aksenov Catherine Polonchuk reported that he voted at his residence, explaining his absence from the lists “technical inaccuracies”. Recall that the election commissions of Crimea and Sevastopol were new voters’ lists on the basis of data that were obtained from FMS Crimeans have received Russian passports, and election officials went home, reconciled lists (see. “Kommersant” on September 9).

On the site N379 in the center of Simferopol, as soon as his car drove up to the Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov (the second number of the list the party in power), the song “City Flowers” immediately turned off, played the national anthem Russia. On a plot of ten in the morning was not crowded. Mr. Konstantinov said that, unlike a referendum, “everything goes measured.” Young family said that they voted for the “United Russia”, because “there Putin.” The man who “forty years working in the automotive industry”, in the elections to the city council supported the candidates of the Liberal Democratic Party, because “they know”, and in the elections to the regional parliament – “United Russia”, which “gave him back his homeland.” Most voters repeated that voted for the “United Russia”, because they are “for Russia.” Retired Evgeny, voted for the “homeland” and explained: “The Motherland should be unified.” Sergei Aksenov he called “a mastermind of integration with Russia.”

In the area of ​​Ak-mosque in Simferopol, the place of compact residence of the Crimean Tatars, was quiet: the music is not included, as an observer – the representative of the “self-defense” of the Crimea. On the site of the 1813 N267 scheduled voters three o’clock voted a total of 192 voters. But Vote “under the camera” came Tatar newlyweds together with witnesses and relatives. Bride Alikova Zemin told “Kommersant” that voted for the only decent “party, but did not name it. Then for an hour on land came only three of the Crimean Tatars. C” b “they refused to talk. According to” Kommersant “deputy chairman of the election committee of the Crimea Alex Kondratenko turnout “in areas densely populated by the Crimean Tatars at 15:00, was not lower than in the whole country, and in some areas even higher. On the next site N268 Tatars told “Kommersant” did not meet.

In Sevastopol, in the elections to the Legislative Assembly and municipal councils have voted 45% of voters. This is almost two times less than in the referendum on annexation of the Crimea to the Russian Federation, where the turnout was nearly 90%, and less than in the 2012 elections, when the Sevastopol elected deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (49.6%). Yesterday in the voters’ lists in Sevastopol added 6.5 thousand. People (about 2% of the total). “It’s nothing that so much. Lists drawn up from scratch” – said the “Y” deputy chairman of the election committee, Konstantin Kostenko.

Acting Governor Sergei Menyailo Sevastopol, the second number of the list of “United Russia”, the city is not registered, so the vote did not participate. “In order to register, you need your own apartment. Only get it after we finish the queue for social housing, and I have the financial ability to rent an apartment,” – explained the “b” Mr. Menyailo. According to him, on the day of the vote expected “provocation”, such as loss of power in the Crimea from Ukraine.

The first number of the list of “United Russia” the head of the Agency for Strategic Development Alexey Chaly told “Kommersant” that “is going to vote for the future of the city”, but the place is hidden. In the evening, he flew to Moscow. Narrow, with whom he will meet, Mr. Chaly refused. Recall that the conflict between him and Sergei Menyailo in late August moved to a public plane. Mr. Chaly said that Sevastopol direct “the swaggering” and “incompetent” people. Mr. Menyailo took it personally. The conflict was resolved only after the intervention of the Kremlin. But a few days before the election, the leader of the local United Russia, the third issue of the party list Victor Hovhannisyan called on voters to vote for a list of “United Russia”, but against its candidates in single-member districts, citing the fact that seven out of eight of them – relatives or friends of Mr. Chaly . Leader of the party list, he accused of wanting to “seize power in the city.” According to the source “b” in the office of Sergei Menyailo, on election day, the parties entered into a conflict “temporary truce”.

Half of the 40 th. Military and civilian personnel of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) has cast a vote until eleven o’clock, told “Kommersant” BSF Deputy Commander Yuri Orekhovskiy. “We conducted an information work in parts, but for anyone not agitated,” – he said. On the site N170 early voting almost a quarter of the electorate. “It’s the sailors of the cruiser” Moskva “, who took part in the elections, before trekking” – explained the “b” the chairman of the election committee of Sevastopol Valery Medvedev.

Sophia Samokhina, Simferopol; Vadim Nikiforov, Sevastopol


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