The Central Election Commission registered the United Russia list under the supervision of the president

Dmitry Medvedev personally came to the Central Election Commission (CEC) to register the United Russia list. Mr. Medvedev said he came to the ceremony not only as the leader of the list, but also to emphasize “that election legislation applies to everyone.” At the same time, the president expressed confidence that the elections will be held “at the highest level” and “the strongest will win.” After December 4, United Russia may hold the next stage of the congress to sum up the results of the campaign.

United Russia became the last Duma party to provide the documents necessary to participate in the elections. Therefore, the Central Election Commission had to register it last. As a rule, someone from the party leadership comes to the meeting where the list is registered. For example, the leader of the party and the LDPR list, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, or the chairman of A Just Russia, Nikolai Levichev, visited the Central Election Commission (although the party list is headed by Sergei Mironov). “United Russia” at the last meetings concerning the party was represented by the secretary of the presidium of the General Council, Sergei Neverov.

Today, the president and head of the United Russia list, Dmitry Medvedev, decided to come to the Central Election Commission, for which the police and the Federal Security Service cleared the entire Bolshoy Cherkassy Lane, where the department is located, both from cars and from citizens.

Only 13 of the 15 members of the Central Election Commission attended the meeting, the agenda of which included only one issue - the registration of the United Russia list. This did not prevent the event from taking place as usual. Commission member Oleg Lavrov, who worked with United Russia documents, summed up the results. Thus, 597 candidates remained on the party list instead of 600 (ex-employee of the presidential administration Nikita Ivanov, member of the coordination council of the Institute for Strategic Security Yuri Shalyganov and Chairman of the Supreme Court of Bashkortostan Mikhail Tarasenko dropped out). As Mr. Lavrov said, there were 172 current deputies on the list, a total of 415 candidates “indicated their affiliation with United Russia,” and another 15 represented public organizations.

As soon as the list was registered, the head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, presented Dmitry Medvedev, who was modestly sitting in the “guest” part of the hall, with a certificate of candidate for deputy. After which the president briefly explained that he had come to the CEC “to emphasize that electoral legislation, election legislation, applies to everyone, including the president.” Although after this he still did not fail to remind that “the United Russia party enjoys very significant support from our voters.” And although there is still a struggle ahead, the president noted, “in any case, the strongest will win.” “I am confident that the elections to the State Duma will be held at the highest level and will show the interest of our citizens in making our political system, and therefore our life, more modern and more interesting,” concluded Mr. Medvedev.

United Russia members, who came to the Central Election Commission together with the president, actively commented on the registration already in the atrium of the Central Election Commission. Thus, the head of the party’s Supreme Council, Boris Gryzlov, said that the basis of the campaign would be a “report on the results” of the party’s work. “Based on the election results, we will make a decision on the introduction of distinguished party members to the highest bodies of the party, or on rotation if the results are worse than we expected for some specific subjects,” said Mr. Gryzlov. The results of the elections, as explained by the secretary of the presidium of the party’s General Council, Sergei Neverov, can be summed up after December 4 at the next part of the United Russia congress.

Maxim Ivanov

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