More than two -thirds of Russians want to return the column "against all" to the election ballots, sociologists found out

The vast majority of Russian citizens (78%) advocate the return of the column "against all" to the ballots in the elections of all levels, Interfax reports with reference to the results of a survey conducted by the Levada Center sociologists.

Only 9% of respondents spoke out against the return of this graph in 2006, another 14% found it difficult to express their position on this issue.

Over a year of supporters, to vote “against all” became more than four percentage points, and opponents - less by six (74% and 15%, respectively in 2012), said in Levada.

Also, among Russians, the idea of ​​allowing citizens and their associations to submit proposals for changes in legislation (68% versus 65% a year ago) is increasingly supporting. Only 8% of respondents do not agree with this, 24% found it difficult to answer.

In addition, almost half of the country's citizens (46%) advocate the return of the opportunity to create electoral blocks in the elections. Only 14%spoke out against this, but a significant part of the respondents (41%) has not yet been able to determine in this matter, the study showed.

To think about the possibility of returning the column "Against all" was proposed by the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko at the first meeting of the autumn session of the upper house on September 25. According to her, after the September elections, the political realities in the country have changed, and this issue is seen as relevant to it.

The CEC of the Russian Federation stated this that they were ready to give an expert opinion regarding the initiative of the Speaker of the Council, if they turn to them, noting, however, that the Central Election Commission does not have the right of legislative initiative.

The opinions of the parliamentary factions on this issue were divided: the Communist Party and the LDPR - "against", "fair Russia" - "for", but with reservations. The non -parliamentary opposition represented by the chairman of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin and the leader of the Civil Platform, Mikhail Prokhorov supported the initiative.

At the same time, the co-chair of the RPR-Parnas party Boris Nemtsov called it “Matvienko Games”, saying: “There will be nothing of this because no one will support it. Otherwise, the Count“ against all ”will win the elections.”

Many political scientists specializing in the analysis of election campaigns in Russia believe that the idea of ​​the head of the SF, in case of its implementation, may interfere with new bright parties and candidates collecting a protest electorate, Interfax notes.

The column “against all” was excluded from the ballots in 2006, so that, as the authors of the initiative explained, “reduce the likelihood of situations when the elections are recognized as failed”, and exclude “the need to appoint repeated elections, which entails the spending of additional budget funds”.

This decision caused the indignation of representatives of the opposition. The return of this graph to the ballots has become one of the inalienable requirements for all the mass protest rallies in the capital and regions that have since since been.

By the way, according to a survey of the same “Levada Center”, held after the presidential election in March last year, if there were a column “Against all”, Vladimir Putin could not win in the first round, gaining only about 47%.