Take the municipality

They do not need Bentley - 2. Of the 1,500 mandates of municipal meetings in Moscow, the opposition will receive about a third according to the election results with the presidential. In the last issue, The New Times wrote about five young people who take the first steps in politics and decided to become deputies of the capital's municipal meetings. What did they achieve in the end?
Of the five candidates, three were deputies-poker figure Maxim Katz, elected in the area of ​​Schukino, student-activist Vera Kichanova, South Tushino, and sports manager and philanthropist Maxim Motin, printer. The barrier banker Denis Gakkal from Dorogomilov and electric power industry Boris Livshits from Konkov could not overcome the barrier.

Denis Gakkal does not lose heart and says that his 1099 votes are an excellent result, given that 30 people knew about him at the end of January in the area. “Of this thousand, about 80% deliberately came to the site to vote for me,” says Gakal. Despite the fact that Denis will not have places in the meeting, he will still continue to deal with his exciting questions: it is necessary to increase the green signal operation at an adjustable crossing through the large Dorogomilovskaya street, ensure street safety on Ukrainian Boulevard, organize circles and sections and open an affordable grocery store. “I plan to attract deputies too - they have been elected, now we need to work,” Denis concludes.

Boris Livshits, according to his admission, is ashamed - he received 2169 votes and took a tenth place out of ten: "Those who knew me turned out to be few." Now Livshits wants to understand how to proceed: “I am not going to refuse an active life position, if I may say so. But, on the other hand, I do not want to become an evil troll, scribbled requests and complaints. I will look for a balance between work, family and social activity. ”

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Members of the commission yelled at Maxim Katz, called the agent of Mossad, the enemy and Russia, and Israel

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The winners Maxim Motin in printer took second place, gaining 39.16% (2542 votes). Maria Malysheva, the director of the school in which there were two polling stations, bypassed 114 votes.

* * In the municipal elections to the winners, candidates are held who took the first five places. . To ensure the victory, Motin turned to 30 friends for help and brought them to all polling stations - both observers and members of the commission with a ruling vote. A week before the elections, the wipers began to tear off the agitation of Motin and lay the posters of other candidates. “But people are not idiots! I saw how ordinary citizens wrote the words “crooks”, “thieves” or “do not vote for them,” Maxim says. He says that he will keep the promises to voters - will work on improving life in the area. “I was the only really independent candidate. I did not promise people what I can’t do. He was honest with them, personally bypassed about 2 thousand apartments, people saw that I was the same as them. Own in general. I think that truth and honesty always win. ”

The student of the journalism faculty of Moscow State University Vera Kichanova took third place out of nineteen (the first four places were passable in her “her” elections). Together with her, two candidates from “United Russia” and one from the Communist Party, the former head of the Council, South Tushino took the fifth place, went to the meeting. The first meeting of the meeting should be held in March. Kichanova wants to get acquainted with the advice and find out what kind of people will work with her, whether they have any ideas and whether it is possible to turn any initiative into business. “I have already talked with one of the deputies, and we are ready to start making a meeting site and an electronic reception for the population together,” Kichanova shares his plans.

The most difficult elections occurred at Maxim Katz - in one of the sites where he remained to follow the process of counting the votes, he was threatened by people in black leather jackets (“How will you go home?”, “Are you not afraid to walk alone in the area?”), And the commission members were yelling at him and called the agent of Mossad, the enemy and Russia. “They made it clear to me that they would have been broken here for a long time if it weren’t for the cameras,” Katz says. He collected about 2 thousand votes and is now actively communicating with all the chosen deputies to gather around him a coalition that will give him the opportunity to engage in urbanism and change the Schukino environment. At the same time, Katsu is indifferent to the party and political affiliation of his future associates - "the main thing is not to be bastards."