: Serve for the party

In Russia, two and a half dozen parties are already in Russia. Various, with very loud and even creative names. For example, the day before, the party was registered by the veteran of Russian politics Sergey Baburin. True, it is more difficult to register, but finding money for a batch - it will be more difficult.

Party, the process of which was initiated by the authorities in December last year, is in full swing in Russia. Literally every day since the adoption of the new edition of the Law on Political Parties, there were reports of either someone’s intention to create a party, or about the submission of documents to the Ministry of Justice (see, let one hundred party flowers bloom). Now it has already reached the news about registration of parties by the Ministry of Justice.

If until December there were only seven parties in Russia and there was no reason to expect a significant increase in their number, then the parties are growing almost faster than mushrooms.

Already now, 26 parties have been registered on the Ministry of Justice’s website.

There are a couple of conditionally right-wing parties (the Republican Party of Vladimir Ryzhkov and the Democratic Party Andrei Bogdanov), the farmers, and the Narodniks (new ones, and not those that Raikova and Gudkov were in the early 2000s), and the Party of Pensioners (now not Valery Kartunga, but quite Loyalist, under the chairmen of the executive director of the Russian pensioners, Nikolai Chebotarev) and even the People’s Party) "For women of Russia". " It was not without playing out the party’s party’s party field: the “Party of Free Citizens”, the Party of “City of Russia”, the Young Russia party (with the main “young lawyer” and the coordinator of the “For honest elections” in the elections on March 4 Nikolai Stolyarchuk as the chairman of the coordination committee), the “Party of Social Networks” and so on are already registered.

Of course, not without the attention of beginners and not very novice party specialists was the left and “patriotic” flank of the political spectrum. Left slogans are traditionally popular among voters and there the war for "delicious" brands was inevitable. Today it has already become known that such a mastodont of domestic politics as Sergey Baburin, who registered the Russian National Union in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Party, had a hand in party. Well, or rather, he reanimated the organization. Baburin headed the organization with this name back in 1991.

Not only Sergey Baburin claims to take part of the electorate from the Communists and other populists who are “for the poor, for the Russians.” The other day, a longtime critic Zyuganova Maxim Suraikin was registered the other day. They called the party project no wonder: "Communists of Russia." Not even like that: “Communists of Russia”, that's for sure.

It is difficult to say how much the new left-patriots have enough strength and desire and whether this will get this in order to seriously weaken the position of the Communist Party in the electoral plane.

Even at the dawn of electoral democracy in New Russia, not everyone was bribed by bright party brands. The same Sergey Baburin in the elections in the year in 1995 went to the head of the electoral bloc with the unpretentious and chlorous name "Power - people!" (Together with the former Soviet prime minister, and now Senator Nikolai Ryzhkov). The people did not convince the name and Baburin and Ryzhkov preferred to give only 1.6 percent of voters (though 9 representatives of the bloc, including Baburin himself, went to the State Duma in single -mandate districts).

One and a half percent-for understanding-this is more than that of the Bloc of Stanislav Govorukhin (this figure was able to gain almost a percentage at the expense of his surname), but significantly less than that of the Congress of Russian Communities Skokov-Lebeda-Glazyev (4.3 percent) or the Power Bloc with Rutskiy at the head (almost 2.6 percent). And comparable to the result of the Pamfilova-Gurov-Lysenko blocks (1.6 percent) or the block of the former head of the Ministry of Finance Boris Fedorov “Forward, Russia!” (almost 2 percent).

This, of course, is already an ancient story. And the elections are now not the same, and the party brands have developed. But here we are talking about the fact that the formal procedure for registering the party does not guarantee her any future. And so that this future is inevitably necessary, in addition to status and beautiful name, real supporters, good organizers, the opportunity to convey ideas to the population and, the last, but not in value, financing.

And here the problem arises. Firstly, the Kremlin, having arranged unprecedented liberalism in a party meadow, did not promise anything like this in other areas of public life. If in terms of communication with voters, the newly-minted party members in the very least have tools (whether it is an incomprehensible “public television” or a banal Internet), then no one “can be played into big politics” for large businesses and, presumably, will not.

So the main problem of the parties will not be a vivid “creative” name and not registration, but fundraising.

After all, the party is an expensive pleasure. Vasily Yakemenko, glorious to get the money, as it were, out of nowhere, when he was the main “ours” and the leadership of Rosmolodezh, he already complained that he had swelled into his unregistered batch of several million personal money (see also why Yakemenko would not succeed?) And if the conditional Vladimir Ryzhkov can still have any hopes for representatives of the same “creative class With Bolotnaya, who gave funds to organize a rally or Alexei Navalny to his projects, then who will give money to the conditional Sergey Baburin is not clear. And without this, the prospects of new parties do not look too joyful.