Elections in Khimki. Special Project PublicPost

On October 14, on a single voting day in Khimki, the mayor's early elections were held. In mid -August, the former mayor Vladimir Strelchenko after a conversation with the governor of the Moscow Region Sergey Shoigu resigned. Strelchenko, with whose name in the city a number of scandals are associated, controlled Khimki for almost 9 years. Oleg Shakhov, First Deputy Governor of the Tula Region, was appointed temporarily acting head of the city. He also won the election with a result of 47.61% of the vote. His rivals Yevgeny Chirikov and Oleg Mitvol scored 17.13% and 14.41% of the vote.

27 people gathered to take part in the election-from the port loader-nazbol Sergey Medvedev and the rock musician Spider to the leader of the Movement in Protecting the Chemistry Forest, Evgenia Chirikova, the former prefect of the Northern District of Moscow Oleg Mitvol and the former acting Head of the city of Oleg Shakhov. Khimkinsky as a beaten was registered by 16 people . Oleg Shakhov, Evgeny Chirikova, Igor Belousov and Oleg Mitnol were considered the favorites of the election race. On the eve of the elections, candidates Igor Belousov, Alexander Romanovich and Yuri Babak.

Indicator of popularity

According to the VTsIOM survey on October 2-5

Dmitry Oreshkin, political scientist:

"The current Khimki vertical goes to Putin, to Rotenberg through Mr. Shakhov. And the key is the paid road Moscow-St. Petersburg. The money is large-$ 2 billion only on the first phase of construction, plus infrastructure along the road, not to mention the fare itself. This is a huge business. From the point of view of the current government, it will be correct if the Khimki persons will sit, This is why it is assigned to the mayor, which is woven with administrative. miss From the hands, control of the cities understands that the elections cannot be lost. "


Alexey Mukhin, CEO of the Center for Political Information:

"Evgenia Chirikova designated the thesis that she wanted to make a chemical landfill for the opposition. The ruling party took it as a challenge. Moreover, Khimki is a trampled political platform, where Evgenia Chirikova feels comfortable. But underwater stones exist for her and a representative of the ruling party Oleg Shakhov. For Evgenia Chirikova, this is an anti -rating: it is quite active The politician is not much like, moreover, she is a certain sexism in relation to her, thanks to the activities of Evgenia, the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway is not built, and this is aggravated by the transport situation in the city. The consequences.

Daniil Lipin, lawyer of the "observer citizen":

"In our electoral falsification system, this is a genetically programmed function. It is necessary to proceed from the appropriateness of falsification, because it is always a consequence of the task of pulling some candidate. It seems to me that the authorities, in particular the domino governor Sergei Shoigu, are not interested in arranging a frank mess in the elections. But minor falsification are quite possible."

Grigory Melkonets, expert of the Voice Association:

"The elections in Khimki will be held on one tour, so it is fundamentally important that the candidate has the majority of the votes, each percentage will be taken into account. I hope for the prudence of the authorities. In Khimki, about 70 polling stations, and there will be observers on each of them. It will be physically difficult to carry out mass falsification. Otherwise, this will lead to the scandal, which will rise to the federal level. All the election in the Khimki will be judged by the Chimp. The honors on the single voting day should be interested in holding them as honestly and correctly without gross falsifications.

• Evgenia Chirikova

• Oleg Shakhov

• Oleg Mitvol

• Sergey Spider Troitsky

• Against everyone

The answers are accepted: 354