There is no such party

The "Republican Party-Party of People's Freedom" (RPR-Parnas) had serious problems in the upcoming elections in October. Yesterday, the party list, led by its co -chairman Vladimir Ryzhkov, was not allowed to elections to the Duma of Barnaul, from which Mr. Ryzhkov was repeatedly elected to the State Duma. The election room did not believe that the RPR-Parnas and restored by the decision of the European Court of the RPR is the same legal entity. Experts explained such a decision by the fact that the authorities do not want to "recognize the fact that the party exists and can participate in the elections."

Registration of the RPR was restored, according to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, in early 2012, and in June it united with Parnas. In the Altai Territory, according to Kommersant, the party’s co-chair Vladimir Ryzhkov, the RPR branch was cutting under the name of the RPR-Parnas last week, but by this moment the elections were already announced. Yesterday the Gorizbirk refused to assure the RPR-Parnas list, led by Mr. Ryzhkov. According to him, the commission was referred to the official newspaper among the official newspaper among the official newspaper Parties entitled to participate in the elections only about the RPR, and not about the RPR-Parnas: "The Hubesman doubts that the RPR-Parnas is an RPR successor." that McDonald's, which has existed for many years, will be renamed McDonalds Parnas. This will remain the same company! ” - explained Mr. Ryzhkov.

It should be noted that even at the stage of unification of the RPR and PARNAS, the party members warned that the authorities could take advantage of this situation, because there were no cases when the liquidated party was restored in court and went to the elections under a different name (Kommersant wrote about this on April 18).

The Altai Territory is considered one of the key regions for the RPR-Parnas: from it to cancel the elections to the State Duma in single-member districts, Vladimir Ryzhkov was elected four times deputy. The last time he was elected from Barnaul in 2003, gaining 35% of the vote - twice as many closest rivals. And in the refusal to register RPR-Parnas, Mr. Ryzhkov sees "unambiguously political motivation." He reminded Kommersant that the registered party could participate in the elections without collecting signatures, which means that there could not be another reason to cut off his party.

Parties will appeal the decision of the Horizbarkoma. "I am already thinking about another complaint to the European Court," said Vladimir Ryzhkov. "The law says that the registration authorities publish a list of associations that have the right to participate in the elections, and on the basis of this the commission makes its decision," said Andrei Buzin, head of the interregional association of voters. In the situation with the RPR-Parnas, the election room, not paying attention to other documents, "took a purely formal position." "The Party of Ryzhkov is right, and the court by law must decide the dispute positively," the expert noted. And the head of the legal service of the Communist Party, State Duma deputy Vadim Solovyov, told Kommersant that the party "must definitely participate in the elections." If the party is registered in the Ministry of Justice, then local branches can automatically participate in the elections and the “nuances in the name” do not deprive the organization of this right, the communist is sure. “This is a pure policy and unwillingness to admit the fact that the party exists and can participate in the elections,” Mr. Soloviev said. The secretary of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Konkin refused to comment on the “Kommersant” situation - “taking into account the fact that this dispute can fall into the field of view of the CEC.”

Note that the RPR Parnas had the first problems with the "apple". Oppositionists agreed to put forward lists so as not to compete with each other, but the Yablons put forward their list to the City Duma of Barnaul, as well as in the elections to the Saratov Regional Duma. The RPR-Parnas list was also headed by Vladimir Ryzhkov, and Yabloko is the leader of the department Dmitry Konnichev. Konstantin Merzlikin, a member of the RPR-Parnas Federal Bureau, told Kommersant that "negotiations were conducted and there was an understanding that in the Saratov region it would be wrong to register two lists." Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin said Kommersant yesterday that he was going to "conduct all the exchanges after registration." The list in the Saratov region will be withdrawn-only "if coalition agreements are fulfilled," that is, when the RPR-Parnas calls its candidates in single-mandate districts, where the Yablons were exhibited.

Maxim Ivanov; Sergey Petunin , Saratov

Source: "Kommersant"