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False partisanship
Here's the latest one. Two not-so-stupid United Russia members, Vladimir Pligin and Alexander Moskalets, proposed amending Article 89 of the law “On elections of State Duma deputies.” Now the so-called “locomotives” who head party lists in elections (the same governors, mayors, actors, athletes), after refusing to work in parliament (and this almost always happens), do not have the right to later regain their mandate. The amendments allow objectors to retain their place on the list. That is, if the governor and mayor, as is happening more and more often, did not end up in prison from their post, but still lost their position, he now may well end up in the Duma.
Some time ago, the same United Russia members prohibited deputies from changing parties while in parliament, legitimizing the deprivation of the mandate of such defectors. The question arises: why is it possible to deceive voters within one party (and the “locomotives” deceive, since they themselves do not work in parliament), but not by moving from party to party? By this logic, for example, 10% of voters who voted for the Rodina bloc in the 2003 Duma elections were deceived by almost the entire faction. At first it split into two factions, and now the Rodina party has been completely absorbed by the Kremlin into A Just Russia.
Conversations that the current amendments allow those who refuse their mandate to return to parliament only once and only if the deputy seat is vacant at that moment are unfounded. Otherwise, it is unknown how the bread-and-butter jobs are raked in our country - whether in parliaments at all levels, or in executive authorities, when it is necessary to “place a little man.” The Federation Council in general has long turned into a reservation for “attached” people. At the same time, the party in power, instead of initiating a ban on the very principle of using “locomotives” in elections as an obvious deception of voters, legislatively takes care of the interests of those who deceive.
The very current legislation on parties excludes the possibility of full existence of parties as a full-fledged political institution. Why, one might ask, should party lists be registered at every election? If a party has passed the registration procedure with the Ministry of Justice, this should automatically provide it with the opportunity to participate in any elections. Why was it necessary to introduce a minimum threshold of 50 thousand members for the official registration of a party? If a huge number of people at different levels are being driven into United Russia, what is the point if this party has a million or 10 million members?
In the CPSU, along with outspoken careerists, there were convinced communists, and from United Russia, at the first signal from above, they will start fleeing in droves. Let there be at least two people in any party, and let it exist. The fate of parties should be decided by voters.
If only the lured parties of the bureaucracy remain on the legal political field, all real politics will still exist - in the streets, squares, and kitchens. But if the authorities continue to push the real political views of citizens into the propaganda cauldron, closed with the lid of “sovereign democracy,” the country will sooner or later fall into pieces. Including such partisanship. Because if the slightest shock occurs, our “locomotives” will not defend the country. They will save themselves: their career or life itself, depending on the circumstances.
By deceiving voters with such a party system, the government is still deceiving itself. False partisanship inevitably leads to false governance. And ostentatious loyalty becomes only a mask of opportunism and quiet sabotage.