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Party of money
On Saturday, January 25, an extraordinary congress of the Green Alliance Party party was held. Its leader, billionaire Gleb Fetisov described the congress as an “extraordinary”. The party changed the name to the “Alliance of Green and Social Democrats” and accepted into its ranks two former Socialist-Revolutionaries: ex-deputy of the State Duma Gennady Gudkov and Hero of Russia, test pilot Sergei Nefedov. Each of them grabbed his unregistered parties into the Green Alliance.
Elena LukyanovaIn addition to them, Pavel Sklynchuk and chairman of the Kologol political party, Nikolai Dijur, joined the updated structure. Also, the governing bodies of the updated alliance included State Duma deputies Ilya Ponomarev and Dmitry Gudkov and a member of the Public Chamber Elena Lukyanova. “We can actually be considered representatives of the new alliance in the State Duma,” Gudkov explained. The chairman of the Central Council of the updated party was the founder of the Green Alliance, the former prefect of the Northern District of Moscow Oleg Mitnol.
Gleb FetisovSpeaking to the press, Gleb Fetisov did not hide that the main unifying beginning of the new structure was the money: “Finally, everyone sober up and realized that the financial resource was very important. We ate we will agree with all opposition forces, we will find the necessary resources to resist the parties of power. ” To the question of the correspondent of Polit.ru about whether he was afraid of accusations of buying parties and politicians, the speaker said that the “ruling party” could be criticized in the same way.
The head of the political expert group, Konstantin Kalachev, in a conversation with Polit.ru, noted that he does not yet see that he unites all this new “variegated coalition”, except for financial principles: “What is common between Lukyanova, Mitvolel and Gudkov?” Only money, according to the expert, does not guarantee the success of the entire project if ideological and other disagreements are not resolved.
Evgeny MingchenkoEvgeny Minkchenko, President of the Minchenko Consulting holding, believes that the new alliance has no electoral prospects: “Only a leader can afford such coalitions. And Fetisov has a rating within the statistical error. ”
At the official part of the congress, the figures joining the “green” in their speeches spoke about the need to combine opposition forces in the country to form a strong party. “We create a new mass platform based on social democratic ideology, which is now very popular among our people. And, combining it with a “green” ideology, we advocate the right to live well and safely. Russia has ripened for a large serious party, ”said Gennady Gudkov. “We will achieve with all the available and inaccessible means that in our country the cult of man, the cult of personality, the cult of the family, the cult of spirituality, the cult of moral freedom and justice will operate,” Nefedov supported him.
Oleg MitvolAccording to the sources of Polit.ru in the newly made structure, there are still ideological conflicts there. It is because of them that it is not yet possible to form a new program. Fetisov claims that she will be accepted at the next congress so that all new party members can participate in its creation.
The practical goals of the party are more obvious. Priority campaigns for the new alliance will be elections to the Moscow City Duma and to the local government of the Moscow Region. The party also has the intention to support Ilya Ponomarev. However, the latter notes that the financial support of the “green” will not be “dominant”.
Gennady GudkovWho exactly goes to the elections in Moscow has not yet been decided. “We will sit down and decide who is coming. Oleg Mitvol seriously considers such an opportunity, I do not exclude such a scenario. Fetisov thinks about it. Another bright candidate may appear, ”Gudkov commented on the situation.
In a conversation with the Polit.ru correspondent, Oleg Mitvol expressed his readiness to struggle for the place of the deputy: “In the Northern District, where I will move in, they know me not only on TV, but also personally. I was born and worked there. ” According to the situation, he noted that the party is not going to “push” with other opposition candidates.
Konstantin KalachevSuch tactics may be winning. Kalachev believes that here the Green and Social Democrats alliance has a chance of success: “On a single site, if the alliance guesses to put candidates for all districts with the aim of subsequent agreements with the authorities or opposition, then they could claim a couple of places. But they still need a couple of scrapped figures in addition to Gudkov and Mitvol. ” The Polit.ru source in the Green Alliance said that the next “acquisition” of the party could be one of the leaders of the “RPR-Parnas” Vladimir Ryzhkov.
The question remains how the party will be an independent project. However, all the interlocutors of Polit.ru assured that they would not enter the party if they had doubts about it.
Dmitry ZhuravlevIn addition, on the sidelines of the congress there was conversations that Fetisov did not suit power with his unpredictability, although the billionaire was trying to "play in a contractual policy." The director of the Institute of Regional Problems, Dmitry Zhuravlev, present at the congress, in a conversation with the Polit.ru correspondent, recalled that they still know Fetisov, and he is to some extent “his own” person.
“Goals: participation in the elections of all levels and a serious result. Control cutout: a parliamentary campaign where you need to go to the State Duma and form a fraction, ”Gleb Fetisov openly outlined his ambitions at the congress. However, as you can see, while experts in the prospects of this project raise many questions.