Navalny headquarters: the second round is inevitable

The gap between Sergey Sobyanin and Alexei Navalny in the elections of the Moscow Mayor is small. According to the Big City, this was stated by the chief of the election headquarters of Navalny Leonid Volkov. “We believe that the second round is inevitable,” Volkov emphasized, suggesting that at about 19:00 "a political decision will be made on whether to allow the second round."

"We do not know any this procedure, nor what kind of result will be. This whole picture suggests that the political decision is not formed," the head of the headquarters said.

According to Volkov, in the elections "there are a competition of two electorate, which is very interesting." He also noted that the elections are "not so much."

The fact that these ectes in the elections of the mayor of Moscow coincide with the election survey of the headquarters of Navalny and indicate that there will be a second round, Volkov said immediately after noon.

“We are worried about those voters who vote at home. It is very difficult for us to register falsifications there,” said the chief of staff. According to him, received from 150 precinct election commissions, the average number of voters included in the lists of voting at home is 27-28 people at the PEC. "Thus, at 3,600 PECs in total it turns out that about 100 thousand people vote at home. This is 3 percent of the predictable turnout," Volkov noted. "In the context of these elections, where the question is literally about units of interest relative to the second round, this is a very serious question," he added.

The Voice Association, leading observation, also has not yet registered serious violations of voting in the election of the mayor of Moscow. The press release of the organization notes that more than 300 calls were received on the hotline of the Voice of the Voice, about half of them indicate violations, but not very serious. Approximately every tenth signal, according to the "Voice", indicates the use of an administrative resource.

According to Aliesna of Independent Observers, 80 percent of Moscow polling stations there are independent civil activists. Voice notes that representatives of the acting mayor Sergei Sobyanin work at 51.4 percent of the plots, observers of Alexei Navalny - 68.8 percent of the sites.

In the first hour of voting in Moscow, there were malfunctions in Internet broadcasts . According to observers, the video from all weekends turned off for about 20 minutes. The problems were related to the server, the recordings of the video cameras themselves were preserved, Volkov said.

According to the data at 15:00, the turnout of the voters in the election of the mayor of the capital amounted to 18.56 percent, the head of the Moscow City Walent Commission Valentin Gorbunov said at a press conference. According to him, the areas of Vostochny, Savelki and Silino voted most actively, on which the turnout ranges from 23 to 27 percent. By 13:00, 7.14 percent of voters voted, and in the first two voting hours - 1.93.

Six candidates apply for the Moscow Mayor. The main rival of the current mayor Sergei Sobyanin in the early elections was Alexei Navalny, nominated by the Party of the RPR-Parnas. He held a campaign involving thousands of volunteer agitators. Mikhail Degtyarev from the LDPR, Nikolai Levich from Fair Russia, Ivan Melnikov from the Communist Party and Sergey Mitrokhin from Yabloko also claim to be the mayor’s post. These are the first direct elections of the Moscow Mayor in 10 years.