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: Secret nomination
The elections of Valentina Matvienko turn around the scandal-they were appointed somehow secretly. Despite the protests of the opposition by the Senator and the speaker of the Federation Council, the St. Petersburg governor will become. However, the whole atmosphere of shellers is an unpleasant signal that the authorities do not want to observe laws when it is unprofitable for them.
The election of the governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko to the municipal authorities are furnished as a special operation. Only recently it became known in which districts she will go to the polls, which is an indispensable condition for its election by the speaker of the Federation Council. Elections in Petrovsky and the Red River are scheduled for August 21.
Matvienko herself the day before she said that she would go to the polls in the municipal council of “Petrovskoye District” and in the Municipal Council “Red River”. “I understand that a lot of insinuations will begin now-someone has hidden something, someone didn’t say something ... As for the legality of the announced elections and everything else, the lawyers checked the legality of the announced elections and confirmed to me that everything was done in accordance with the law,” she explained to Kommersant.
The nomination of candidates in these districts ended last week. Thus, the nomination of Matvienko remained unnoticed by the opposition and she has practically no competitors in the elections. And, therefore, there are almost no obstacles to obtaining a post of a senator and speaker of the Federation Council. “Valentina Ivanovna needs a simple majority of votes to win,” Vsevolod Belikov, head of the council of municipalities of St. Petersburg, told Interfax.
Valentina Matvienko. Photo: Mauricio Macri, Flickr.com Opponents of Matvienko have already promised her nomination to protest. The leader of the Fair Russia Department in St. Petersburg, State Duma deputy Oksana Dmitrieva said that the party was preparing a lawsuit to recognize illegal elections in the districts where the city governor Valentin Matvienko is running. “Contrary to the current legislation, the elections of the 21st of Petrovsky and Krasnenkaya River outlined for Matvienko were not devoted to publicity, the city election was not notified of these elections. Therefore, we are preparing a lawsuit in court with a demand to recognize these elections illegal, ”Dmitrieva said.
The authorities probably did everything to make the advancement look relatively legitimate. In addition, the post of Speaker of the Council was promised to the governor by the president and in exchange for leaving the post. With this level of agreements, Gorizbirk will not risk in any case. Although formally he will conduct a test. According to the head of the city election commission Dmitry Krasnyansky, he is now studying the Documents on the appointment of elections and checks the legality of the elections in the districts. “The main thing is to find out if there was a publication about the elections,” Dmitry Krasnyansky explained. - If she was, then we can say that the elections are announced. If there was no publication, no. ”
The secret of the nomination lies in the fact that Valentina Matvienko is far from the most popular governor, and the opposition promised to put serious partner chasing against her. In this situation, the chances of the current governor became far from obvious to win: the attention of the public and the media would be fed to them in full, the struggle would be tough ,. Here at least at least lead the campaign under the slogan "Vote for Matvienko - save the city from it."
That is, they show exactly what Dmitry Medvedev calls "legal nihilism." The announcement itself is that the governor will become a senator on the verge of decency. Nevertheless, the qualification of the sediment for senators was introduced with the explanation that the representative of the legislative power should go through the election procedure. That is, as a palliative from the situation when a person simply buys a senator mandate and has nothing to do with the region, or even just to lawmaking. You can, of course, argue that Valentina Matvienko is most directly related to the region. But the fact remains - it did not pass any elected procedure from the election of the governor in 2003.
And when the decision was ripe - to hold Matvienko quickly through the municipal elections - it also turned out to be quasiylegite. In fact, the elections were invented, and then potential competitors were also lost. If it turned out, it must be assumed, then the elections themselves would try to hold in an atmosphere of secrecy.
Such a deliberately dismissive approach to the law and - wider - the established rules of the game is a consequence of the weakness of limiters for the bureaucracy. In fact, the approach “What I want - I turn it over” becomes an answer to all questions. First of all, because there is almost no one to ask for the actions of power in the country.