: To choose from

On October 14, elections of various levels will be held in 77 constituent entities of the Federation - from governor to municipal. In five regions - the Amur, Belgorod, Bryansk, Novgorod and Ryazan regions - the newly returned direct elections of governors will take place. In six - the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, the Udmurt Republic, the Krasnodar Territory, the Penza, Saratov and Sakhalin regions, the elections of deputies of legislative assemblies were appointed. In anticipation of these events, Polit.ru found out that most experts consider the elections to a non -hemocratic cover for the implementation of all the same governor's appointments.

Political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin is sure that there is no democratic component in the upcoming governor, municipal and other elections scheduled for October 14.

“The only component in the upcoming elections is functional. The authorities are centralized again, and the regions must again pay for loyalty to economic growth ", Dmitry Oreshkin

-says Oreshkin, explaining that if we had 20-25 donor regions in the “dashing 90s”, now 10-12. The authorities, in the competence of Oreshkin, are trying to somehow restructure the exhausted control model-the “Appointed” model, and the elections simply “galvanize” the relationship of elites and the Kremlin proteges, trying to confuse them and revive them. In the hope that the shake will remove the long -increasing voltage.

“The people here or democracy as a value excite power in the last turn,” the expert is sure. In his words, the obvious controllability of all the intended events indicates non -combination. The opposition was powerless. The unsystematic opposition is not present in the lists anywhere.

In the Governor's election, the Parliamentary opposition in five regions is represented by the LDPR without competing with the pro -government candidates (“These guys simply simulate the elections”), only in one region they registered a candidate from “fair Russia”, and the latter also has no chance (“Social Revolutionaries were dragged through this filter and put against the young and energetic unanimous Russians Kozhemyaki, who goes only for the second term and did not have time to bother anyone! ”). In the Bryansk region, for example, where a strong candidate Vyacheslav Rudnikov came out against the unpopular Nikolai Denin, the opposition candidate was simply removed. And so wherever the opposition had at least the slightest chances - the opposition as the enemy was destroyed in advance.

“The oppositions indicated the place with the help of Gudkov -“ You will be disloyal - you will not be. ” And they are loyal, they are still not, ”says Oreshkin.

As a result, according to the political scientist, the upcoming elections at the governor's level retain the intrigue only in the Bryansk and Ryazan regions: there are chances for the second round. And the change of the governor in the end can occur, most likely, in only one of the five regions where the governor's elections will be held. At the municipal level, the picture is similar - the majority of opposition candidates where they could compete with the party in power, simply did not go through the municipal filter, and others suppressed the administrative resource (“even Chirikov in Khimki is already fighting for second place”).

“Something will change seriously only where the elections to the regional Duma will be held (maybe in the Krasnodar Territory)-regional legislative meetings. What is this democracy? " - Asks Oreshkin. Grigory Golosov

The doctor of political sciences, professor of the European University in St. Petersburg Grigory Golosov, is held by a similar opinion: Governor's elections are just a purpose according to the new procedure.

“Despite the presence of URN for voting, the governor’s elections will simply repeat the same practices in the new conditions that we have seen over the past years. We will see the real consequences of reforms, at best, only next year, ”the professor is sure. The only innovation, in his opinion =, can be considered = the emergence of a large number of spile-parties. “But I would not characterize this innovation. Just a new feature, ”says votes. The democracy of any processes, summarizes the votes, ends where the uniformity of the participants begins.

“The opposition was essentially not allowed for the governor's elections. But it cannot be said that she especially sought. And where she sought, - the municipal filter did not even miss the parliamentary party "Fair Russia". Gleb Pavlovsky

In the elections to the Legislative Assembly, only the “Yabloko” is actively involved, the rest showed passivity. The Republican Party of Russia had the opportunity to participate in all areas, but actually participates only in the Saratov region, and so on, the votes argue. “So about democracy, precisely because of the weak participation of the opposition, there is no need to talk in this election.”

Political strategist Gleb Pavlovsky also believes that democracy, if it correlates with the upcoming elections, is only as a possible consequence.

“The benefits from the process are extracted by those who take part in it. And the elections will be attended mainly by candidates from United Russia. They will receive a new experience. The experience, as a result of which, as it seems to me, will be visible for the bifurcation of power forces, which, on the one hand, completely separated the elections from themselves, and on the other hand, require these abstract structures of some subordination and loyalty.

All that the authorities have recently been doing is experienced by strength. Elections are another test that will take part in many parties-spools that increase the stress and complicate the already confusing system.

If the government does not withstand, weakens itself, other processes can go, including democratic, ”Pavlovsky believes.

Vladimir Burmatov

But in the undoubted democratic value of the elections of all levels, the head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Russian Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov, deputy of the State Duma from United Russia Vladimir Burmatov . According to the deputy-political scientist and a large number of registered parties, and the very fact of election and the attention of society to what is happening-there are undeniable democratic victories.

“A lot of small parties at the level of legislative assemblies took part - this is undoubted democratization. And in general, the fact that the parties have become mathematically more is a very good sign, ”Burmatov is sure. The parliamentarian does not find serious challenges of United Russia. He sees the reasons for this in the unpreparedness of young parties and the strategic mistake of the parliamentary opposition.

“Not all small parties were able to take part in the elections, but, apparently, because they have not yet been strengthened. They do not have their regional network, did not manage to rebuild the headquarters and structure. Sometimes the years take, so nothing surprising, ”the political scientist believes. - And the opposition’s complaints about the municipal filter are the expected phenomenon. It is necessary to collect signatures of deputies, but they have no one in the regions. They focus on the struggle for governor chairs, on the struggle for chairs in the State Duma. Go to work with the people! And then there will be no problems with the signatures of the deputies. The municipal filter is wonderful! This is a very serious incentive for all parties to fight for places in municipal and regional parliaments, an incentive to go to people. ”

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