Kommersant: Babakov is included in the ONF primaries in the Perm Territory

The Vice Speaker of the State Duma from "Fair Russia" Alexander Babakov is included in the list of participants in the joint primaries of "United Russia" and the All-Russian Popular Front in the Perm Territory. According to Kommersant, that the statement from Babakov received the ONF Federal Headquarters, said Dmitry Skivanov, head of the reception of the leader of United Russia and the ONF of Vladimir Putin. True, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he knew nothing about Babakov’s joining the ONF and cannot find a person who is in the course of the case in the federal headquarters.

For the first time, information about the transition of one of the founders of Fair Russia to ONF appeared on July 21. The party leadership first reacted tightly to this news. Party Chairman Nikolai Levichv even suggested that Babakov, who was not included in the federal part of the list in the State Duma elections, decided to "sell himself more expensive." Later Levevich later said that Babakov denies involvement in the application for the transition to the ONF, and in case of refusal to go to the ONF will receive a “central place” in the list of Fair Russia. Meanwhile, last Tuesday, the surname Alexander Babakov was discovered on the ONF official website in the lists of participating in the primaries in the Voronezh region, but they assured that he was not on the lists, and later his surname disappeared from the site.

The vice speaker himself has not yet commented on the situation. He can make an official statement on Friday at a press conference. Nikolai Levich to the question of what the inclusion of Alexander Babakov is related to the Perm participants in the PROMIMENS ONF, said that "nevertheless, he himself will have to be explained first." "Based on how not publicly his transition to the party in power took place, it can be said that Babakov had been negotiating for the feasibility of such a step for a long time," said the head of the election headquarters of "Fair Russia", State Duma deputy Oleg Mikheev.

Unofficially, party members say that a protracted expectation is associated with Babakov’s attempts to guarantee a “status” place in the future State Duma. In Fair Russia, they are sure that a political strategist and galleryman Marat Gelman, who is now working in Perm, is involved in the scandal. Gelman himself denies this, he only confirmed that the State Duma vice speaker was "really registered" in Perm on the primaries.

Babakov got into the State Duma in 2003 according to the lists of the Rodina party. Subsequently, the merger of the "Motherland", "Party of Pensioners" and the "Party of Life" by Sergey Mironov occurred. In the United Party "Fair Russia: Homeland, Pensioners, Life" Mironov took the post of chairman, and Babakov became the secretary of the Presidium of the Central Council of the party.

On July 13, Prime Minister, leader of United Russia Vladimir Putin approved the desire of representatives of opposition parties to join the All-Russian Popular Front and participate in the primaries to nominate candidates for deputies of the State Duma. Putin suggested "paying attention not to the party belonging of those joining the ONF, but to the essence of the proposals they put forward." At a meeting with Putin, the Speaker of the State Duma, the chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia, Boris Gryzlov, said that "representatives of the opposition parties who are in the Duma are handing over their applications as individuals", including in the Sverdlovsk region - from the Communist Party of the Communist Party - from "Fair Russia", in Chelyabinsk - from the LDPR.

"It seems to me that all people who come to us with such proposals need to be respectfully respected. There is nothing unusual here - this is a normal phenomenon when a person who is in some party is in a political movement, in some ways to rethink his position, he will rather be able to conduct his proposals through the structures of the same" united Russia ". It seems to me that I need to look at the essence of the proposals made," - said it. Putin.

On July 8, Gryzlov said that opposition representatives entering the ranks of the All -Russian Popular Front should leave their parties. "There is such a tendency: ordinary members of various parties, including opposition, are probably disappointed in the activities of their parties and adjoin the Popular Front. This is a completely normal phenomenon, because the front is a wide coalition of progressive forces, those who want to see our country leading in all world positions. We, of course, welcome the expansion of our coalition at the expense of representatives of other other positions Parties, ”said Gryzlov.

At the end of June, a great resonance received a story with the entry into the ONF of three municipal deputies from "Fair Russia" in the Arkhangelsk region. Socialist-Revolutionary leader Sergei Mironov said that the deputies had to enter the front due to the threats of the head of the district that, otherwise, gas would not be carried out in their village. The head of the North-Western Interregional Coordinating Council of United Russia Sergey Petrov rejected these accusations of the Socialist Revolutionaries, calling them "hysteria", which was provoked by mass departure of people from the party.