A very "specific" party

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, after waiting for three months, announced his intention to create the Civic Platform party. At the same time, he himself stated that the new political force would be “very specific.” Yes, when you begin to figure out what exactly the “giant of oligarchic thought” gave birth to, for some reason you involuntarily recall Pushkin’s words: “not a mouse, not a frog, but an unknown little animal.” Prokhorov’s party, as it turns out, will consist of only 500 people, and the only goal of this organization is not to conduct political struggle and work among the masses, but only “to hold a license to allow civil society leaders to go to elections.” That is, no one is going to offer voters any ideology, political course, or specific ideas on how to organize life in Russia. What is especially touching is that there will be no leaders in the newly-minted ersatz party. Even Prokhorov himself is not going to join it. That is, he will apparently manage it, but as if from afar, through intermediaries. In a word, we have an offshore economy, and now we will have an “offshore policy.”

Why did Prokhorov’s political “brainchild” take such bizarre forms, around which there is so much noise and PR? Everything, in my opinion, is simple. In the presidential elections, the oligarch acted as a spoiler candidate, whose goal was to divert as many protest votes as possible, primarily the so-called “angry citizens.” Today, Kremlin political strategists are solving the same problem: trying to diffuse protest sentiments, which still do not subside. The billionaire himself does not seem to need any serious party. Creating a powerful, authoritative party in society is not organizing a Courchevel party. Here you have to plow and plow, completely devoting yourself to the rough organizational work. That is why it was decided to limit ourselves to creating not a full-fledged party, but something like a company to provide “election services.” Perhaps they will help some of the civil activists in regional or municipal elections with legal support or even funding. You just need to understand: you will have to pay for this “free cheese” by falling into an “oligarchic mousetrap.”

This is how “specificity” turns out. I feel very sorry for those voters who cast their votes for billionaire Prokhorov on March 4. I believe that many of them today are experiencing great disappointment, realizing that, to put it mildly, they were abandoned. Well, if anyone hasn’t understood this yet, they will probably understand it in the near future.

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