Aliens do not go here

Elections to the Moscow City Duma will be held without the participation of the opposition

Battle for Moscow. The battle begins for one of the most expensive cities in the planet

The expenditure part of the Moscow budget is 1.46 trillion rubles. For comparison: the budget of the second in the ranking of the richest regions of the country of St. Petersburg is almost four times less-only 362 billion. The price of one square meter of housing in the capital is three times higher than the national average. In Moscow, 74 dollar billionaires lived before the crisis (more than in New York), and the difference between the poor and the rich is 42 times, the politician Boris Nemtsov claims in his expert report . Registration of candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma ended with a scandal: the authorities withdrew all independent candidates. The Kremlin is unhappy with the zealousness of the capital's authorities. The bets are high: future deputies of the Moscow City Duma have something to share . “United Russia” is leaded by the mayor of Yuri Luzhkov to the elections. And he has something to fight for: his wife’s business empire is estimated at billions of dollars . However, these elections may turn out to be for the metropolitan patriarch, although golden, but in the fall . About all this - in the main topic of the number

The registration of parties to participate in the elections of the Moscow City Complex completed on Saturday, September 5. The last were the millstones of the election commission candidates from Yabloko and the Patriots of Russia. Four parties presented in parliament were automatically registered, the “right -handed” refused to participate in the elections, and there are no other parties in Russia. “We will not be removed,” said The New Times on the eve of the completion of registration at the headquarters of the Patriots of Russia. - We received a protocol on checking signature sheets, four with a small percentage of signatures with a maximum permitted marriage of 10%were rejected. This allows our candidates to participate in the elections. ” The same confidence radiated at the headquarters of Yabloko: “We strongly strained, mobilized resources. We were helped by citizens whom we saved from illegal development. There was a small percentage of rejected signatures, but this only proves that living people signed. At the same time, we were interfered with all the time, they were delayed by the collectors of signatures, ”the party leader Sergei Mitrokhin told The New Times. -The fact that someone was refused registration is absolutely wrong. This gives the right to say that the authorities are afraid of them. ”
The authorities were afraid of a way about which Ilyich also said: "In form is correct, but in fact a mockery." Incorrectly designed footnotes, not so set by a squiggle - all this allowed one fell swoop to throw thousands of signatures of voters into the basket: each candidate who was about to be elected in a single -mandate district had to collect 4.5 thousand signatures. For example, the representative of the opposition “solidarity” Ilya Yashin was not forgiven for the lack of inter -tallnesses in the signature sheets, and the same “error” in the sheets of “patriots of Russia” seemed to members of the election commission with a simple inattention, for which the patriots, and also Russia, should arrange problems.

Hello from Mordovia

The trim became a factor in politics: this detail of the signature sheet will now go down in history. Therefore, it should be told in more detail about her. So, so that the candidate is not confused when applying for a signature sheet, under the lines where he must indicate his name, surname, date of birth, place of work, the developers of the sample placed this very substrate (maybe now it is worth writing this word with a capital letter?). For example, in the line where it was supposed to be indicated - Yashin Ilya Valerievich, there was an abbreviation of the name: what if the opposition will not realize that he must indicate his last name, name and patronymic? Well, indeed, the children are small, these disagreements ... In short, filling out the signature sheet, and before spending more than one week on collecting signatures of like-minded people, these children of the Russian democratic movement were removed to the purpose of saving places. "Ah!" -shouted Ivan Ivanovich with Ivan Nikiforovich,-here you, gentlemen-democrats, want in your own way! " The “a-a” was followed by a refusal to register.
The meeting of the Moscow City War Committee, at which the final decision was made on the removal of oppositionist-monastery on such a stretched reason, took place that symptomatic, on the day of knowledge, September 1. In the “Yabloko”, like the “patriots of Russia”, the substitute was also absent in the signature sheets, but no one began to find fault with them. “A situation is created in which one lack of an adherence is forgiven, but the others are not. This is called “legal lawlessness,” says Vadim Soloviev, head of the legal service of the Communist Party. - Moreover, such explanations do not bear any legal burden. In addition, if the “Yabloko” and other parties in this way accepted the decorated sheets, that is, all the grounds to restore the candidate. The law is one for everyone. "
Already on September 2, instructed election officers began to work such miracles that even remotely familiar with arithmetic first -graders would be surprised. So, if Ilya Yashin and Igor Trunov (lawyer, member of the “Right Case” party) rejected 100% of the signatures they collected in the University District of Moscow, then Igor Drandin and Ivan Starikov have already been chosen from the same “solidarity” of 104% and 113% of the signatures! In fact, the ability to gain more absolute maximum was previously considered to be the know-how of the United Russia party: for example, in December 2007, she gained 102% of the vote in Mordovia. But how did the dead go into signature sheets?
The most comic one turned out to be a story with candidate Drandin. His signature was a zealous Ryizbirk managed to check on Monday, August 31. That is, on the eve of the decisive meeting in the Moscow City Warrics. The candidate was issued a certificate of rejected 4% of signatures and offered to appear on Wednesday, September 2, to become an officially registered single -mandate. But when Drandin appeared in the commission for confirming his registration, he heard the news about the complete indistinguishability of the signatures he collected. Employees of the election committee added 100%with rejected earlier 4%, so the notorious 104%turned out. No less funny from the elections they shot another representative of the "solidarity" of Vladimir Milov. 28.5% of the signatures were declared marriage, among them - the personal signature of Milov himself (according to the law, a candidate living in the district from whom he is nominated has the right to put a signature for himself).

Labbation

As a result, other candidates from “solidarity” were also removed from the elections: Sergey Davidis, Nikolai Lyaskin, Roman Dobrookotov. Boris Nadezhdin, a candidate from the “right -handed”, was also removed: he was married 17% of signatures. “Of course, we will appeal all these decisions in court,” says Ilya Yashin. - But four years ago, in a similar situation, the courts restored the withdrawn candidates three days before the elections, so they no longer had the time to hold the election campaign. But we will still lead a civil campaign against United Russia. "Solidarity" promises to bring its supporters to the street and protest against the arbitrariness of the Moscow authorities. And indeed: the Moscow authorities could get rid of objectionable candidates on the road, retaining at least the appearance of competitive elections and an unbiased attitude to the opposition. However, the example of Sochi, in the elections of the mayor of which Boris Nemtsov gained 13.5%, apparently was a cruel blow to the authorities - to such an extent that the verb “think” was finally excluded from its conceptual apparatus.
“Judging by how the election man gets rid of unwanted candidates, the decision about who to be in the Duma and who is not accepted,” said Andrei Buzin, chairman of the interregional association of voters. “It is obvious that the claims are not based on the law.”

Kremlin vs Luzhkov?

The goal for which the asphalt layer was launched in opposition candidates is understandable: to clear the road by loyal Yuri Luzhkov to representatives of United Russia. True, the head of the regional programs of the Information Policy Development Fund, Alexander Kynev, considers such a tactics erroneous: “The authorities are simple: not to let anyone go anywhere, to solve everything administrative means, no public discussion.” “The shutting of the opposition’s mouth, especially in a crisis, is a big mistake of the authorities,” the political scientist is sure. - The number of problems in the city is growing, as well as dissatisfaction of the population. In these conditions, the mass removal of candidates once again demonstrates the inadequacy of the policy of the Moscow government. ”
According to the sources of The New Times in the Presidential Administration, Yuri Luzhkov, in the Kremlin, was also spoke about the inadequacy of the actions of Yuri Luzhkov. First - after the brutal suppression of the "day of the disagreement" on July 31. “All spring, Dmitry Medvedev spoke about the freedom of assembly, freedom of will, and here OMON and the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, obviously, from the submission of Tverskaya, pursue a policy of exactly the opposite of Medvedevskaya,” the interlocutor in Old Square was indignant. The opposition was also ardent strictly on August 31. Shortly before the start of the registration of candidates in the Moscow City Duma, the Kremlin sent Luzhkov a very specific signal: on August 12, Vedomosti’s newspaper was released “It was ordered not to shoot”. The interlocutor of the newspaper in the Presidential Administration claimed that he was taken to ensure more competitiveness and will no longer remove objectionable candidates at the registration stage. The instructions were brought to judges, members of the election commission and prosecutors, the interlocutor of the newspaper stated. It was said: the one who removes the opposition will restore him. Yuri Luzhkov, obviously, did not understand the hint or did not want to understand. The question that is now violently discussed in political and bureaucratic circles: either Vuzhkov decided to go to the Va-Bank and simply sent the federal center in the whole direction, or there really was a directive from the Kremlin, but during the subsequent “warmths” they decided that in the conditions of the crisis it was stupid and easier to act in the old fashioned way.

EP vs Luzhkov?

The emerging conflict questioned the participation of President Medvedev in the celebration of the City Day on September 4–5. Festive events began after signing the number in print, but, according to The New Times, it was still decided that the head of state would appear on some protocol events. And therefore, the poor prince Yuri Dolgoruky was surrounded by stands and cardboard decorations: at rehearsals on September 3, young people worked out the synchronism of the turn of their hands in one direction. The best symbol of the upcoming elections to the Moscow City Duma cannot be invented.
However, the scenery is unlikely to help hide dissatisfaction with the mayor experienced by the Kremlin. For Yuri Luzhkov, who wants to save his place, these elections are likely to be the last. He for a long time agreed with the Kremlin and the White House his first place in the party list, although he did not have similar problems before the elections to the Moscow City Duma and the State Duma of 2003 and 2007. With great difficulty, he managed to huddle the hit in the first three party list and the current speaker of the Moscow City Duma Vladimir Platonov. “The question is not how many parties will be in the Moscow City Duma,” the interlocutor explained in the central apparatus of the party in power. - The question is how the quality composition of the United Russia faction will be. How many loyal Luzhkov deputies will be in the Moscow parliament, and how many critically configured to him. For example, the question is very strictly discussed who will be the speaker of the MGD: Luzhkov lobbies Platonov’s candidacy, but many people in the central apparatus of the party of the authorities see the current head of the fraction in the MGD of Andrei Metelsky. ”
On September 7, the election campaign will begin in Moscow, on October 11, dear Muscovites will come to the polling stations and the alignment in the new Moscow City Duma will understand. But one thing is already obvious: it will be its own for the authorities. The intrigue is only for which power is Moscow or federal?

Elections to the Moscow City Duma will be held on October 11. 18 out of 35 deputies will be elected according to party lists, the remaining 17 - in single -mandate districts (there were 15 in the last elections of the districts). The list of "United Russia" is headed by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, speaker of the MGD Vladimir Platonov and Luzhkov Deputy Lyudmila Shvetsova. The Communist Party of the Communist Party is State Duma deputy Vladimir Ulas, MGD deputy Nikolai Gubenko and businessman Vadim Kumin (former employee of RAO UES, who has been the post of first deputy general director of OJSC “Technopromesport” since 2004, a state -owned company building energy facilities in Russia and beyond, the publisher of the communist “worker newspaper”). At the head of the LDPR list is the party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Former State Duma deputies Gennady Semigin (party leader) and Sergey Glotov, as well as actor Sergei Makhovikov, lead the non -parliamentary “Patriots of Russia”. “Fair Russia” is represented by the head of the Moscow Branch of the Party Nikolai Levichv and State Duma deputy Galina Khovanskaya. The first numbers on the list of Yabloko are the current deputies of the City Duma Sergey Mitrokhin and Evgeny Bunimovich.

The preparation of the material took part
Ekaterina Bazanova