President Dmitry Medvedev called the situation that developed in Yaroslavl during the mayoral elections unacceptable. “It is unacceptable when one person wins the primaries, who is capable of winning the election, and the governor decides on the participation of another, based on the fact that he has his own ideas about how political life should be structured,” Interfax quotes him as saying President at a meeting with United Russia activists. “This is a failure,” he emphasized.

In the elections for the mayor of Yaroslavl, self-nominated deputy of the Yaroslavl municipality Evgeny Urlashov won in the second round with a result of 69.65% (in the first round he received 40.25% of the votes), while United Russia Yakov Yakushev, supported by the regional governor Sergei Vakhrukov , received only 27.78% of the votes in the second round (in the first round - 27.12%). In the region as a whole, the United Russia list gained only 29% in the parliamentary elections.

After this result, the head of the Yaroslavl region Sergei Vakhrukov became one of the candidates for early resignation as governor. In particular, last week the Vedomosti newspaper , citing a Kremlin official, reported that Vakhrukov would soon leave his post “of his own free will.”

Commenting on the situation in Yaroslavl today, Medvedev noted that “they bear responsibility for the failure, and not only in intelligence, but also in ordinary political life.” “Therefore, for the future: we all must make for ourselves, perhaps a difficult, difficult decision, that at the moment when someone better appears, who has more support, we must move forward,” said the head of state.

Medvedev: Yaroslavl mayoral elections are a failure