Translated material
"Quietly himself with him ..."
United Russia fought with United Russia. Won "United Russia"
United Russia fought with United Russia. Won "United Russia"
On February 22, Politboy was held in Pskov between candidates for deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the United Russia party, running around single -mandate districts located in Pskov.
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And although the Pskov United Russia take part in television battles on the air of regional television, where they compete in eloquence with representatives of other parties, there is no doubt that this genre of election campaign has long been outdated. In 2003, on the eve of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, United Russia generally refused to participate in television battles. It is likely that in the 2007 elections, United Russia will also not debate with representatives of other parties, preferring the concept of “intra -party struggle”, worked out during regional campaigns.
The United Russia themselves, the lips of the leading “fights” by Denis Nikitin (this charming young man arrived in Pskov specifically in order to shake “bears” among themselves within an hour and a half) that they offered to be measured by the power of the mind to representatives of all political parties in the Pskov region, who took a campaign for the election of the regional assembly, but they flatly refused.
However, the first secretary of the Pskov regional committee of the Communist Party Sergei Gogolev, who heads the list of communists and participating in the elections in a single -mandate district located in Pskov, told the PG correspondent that he would not hear about such an invitation and that he would certainly accepted it if he had received it in a timely manner.
The hall of the Pskov House of Officers, in which the battles took place, apparently, were largely filled with employees of the election headquarters of the candidates who took part in them. As for the high -ranking representatives of the regional administration and the Oblazbarkom, who also were present, it remained not clear in what capacity they were there: as private individuals, as officials, or as members of the ER campaign headquarters. The role of the extras was played by members of the youth organizations “First Border”, “The Young Guard of United Russia,
In order to warm up the public and the candidates themselves, the organizers before the start of the Politboys held a real boxing match. Two athletes for several minutes struck each other on the patch between the stage and the audience. The “warm -up” of a broken nose ended. After that, candidates occupied their places in the “red” and “blue” corners of the improvised ring.
Viktor Phenoderin and Andrei Bukin did not appear on the battle, referring to employment. They were replaced by assistants: Alina Tsikunova and Vyacheslav Yakovlev. Alexei Sevastyanov, Dmitry Khritonkov, Viktor Nikitin and Igor Savitsky challenged by him personally. For a boring effect, they even gave out boxing gloves - one pair for each three.
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Lines from old Ham came to memory: “There was a gong, and Jack quickly turned and went out. Walkott approached him, they touched each other with a glove on a glove, and barely Walcott lowered his hand, as Jack spent a double jab [a short straight blow used at a close distance] left to the head. There was no best boxer in the world than Jack. Walcott went to him, moving forward all the time, lowering his chin. He prefers to work with hooks [hook - a blow with a bent hand, one of the strongest in boxing] and holds his hands low. All he knows how to beat ... in the fourth round, he already had blood, and his whole face was broken. But every time they came closer, Walcott beat hooks with such force that Jack had two large red spots lower than the ribs. ”
However, the United Russia did not want to at all not only to apply each other spectacular hooks on the left or right, but even ask provocative questions. For three minutes, each of them could speak out on the burning issues of modernity formulated and included on the agenda by “United Russia”: an increase in average wages, the construction of affordable housing, the preservation of political stability, etc., etc.
Candidates took turns speaking out on a given topic in the sense that yes, they say, we must increase, build, achieve. There were no disagreements. The only difference was that someone, for example, to Mrs. Tsikunova, was not enough, and someone, as Mr. Nikitin, filed in two and a half. In addition, candidates from opposite camps could ask each other questions. However, this did not cause them difficulties. United Russia did not want to provide each other's “bear services”. Unless Alexei Sevastyanov regarded the question of Dmitry Khritonkov about his favorite book as a blow below the waist, and it seems, a little bit offended.
The final “round” should have been answers to the questions of the hall. “Ask what they think about youth policy!”, - one of the leaders of the “first frontier” of their wards hesitated. But they were not in a hurry: either the opinion of the United Russia did not particularly worry them, or in general terms they imagined that the “bears” think on this occasion.
The most acute question of the evening was asked by the presented candidate for deputies of the Pskov City Duma, Alexander Dodonov, who was maliciously asked why, contrary to the instructions of “your president” that the business should be socially responsible, the head of the United Russia election campaign (read - governor Mikhail Kuznetsov) is in no hurry to invest in the repair of roads leading to the Pskov Summier. However, the question turned out to be orphaned and obscure, and the host, interrupting Mr. Dodonov, “optimized” it to the rhetorical “when will the roads build?”. The answer, as one would expect, did not follow. And the Politdebats between members of United Russia completed safely. The victory of "United Russia", of course.
And who else, one wonders, was supposed to win them?
Maxim Kiselev.