Coalition for Zyuganov's grandson

The election campaign to the Moscow City Duma has reached its equator. On August 18, televised debates between the candidates began, in which representatives of all 45 electoral districts of Moscow are expected to take part. There is a revival of political forces that have begun to declare unification in a coalition. But before one of them, with the name “For Moscow,” had time to report its sympathies for certain parties, the communists announced the creation of their own “support group,” calling it “Red Moscow.” They want to unite patriotic forces under the red flags.

According to the communists, all opposition candidates in each district of Moscow should unite around one strong contender. One of those who came up with the idea of ​​​​creating such a coalition was the deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Valery Rashkin. He, by the way, is the initiator of the nomination of the grandson of communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, 25-year-old sociologist Leonid, as a candidate for the Moscow City Duma. His decision then caused a scandal in the ranks of the Communist Party, not all of whose members agreed with the unexpected nominee. Party members were embarrassed by the young man's inexperience. “How can you trust a person if practically nothing is googled by his first and last name?” said one of the representatives
faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma about the grandson of the leader.

Indeed, until recently no one knew about the existence of Leonid Zyuganov, and nothing is known about his party activities either. There is very short information that the grandson of the communist leader graduated from the social department of Moscow State University. Several years ago, some dubious Internet resources wrote about his studies in a correctional school and his failed studies abroad. True, now a young metropolitan communist with a telling surname is a candidate for a deputy mandate in the Moscow City Duma and a victory is necessary for Zyuganov Sr. to be satisfied with both his grandson and his loyal party members. Obviously not without the participation of his grandfather, Leonid Zyuganov was given the eighth district (the Sokol, Voikovsky, and Airport districts of the capital), where the Communist Party of the Russian Federation enjoys the greatest support in Moscow. But given that there are six other contenders, no one has yet guaranteed him victory. It seems that the communists are ready to make a deal with anyone, to sacrifice all party interests, forgetting about the voters, just to get Zyuganov Jr. into the deputy seat, and then into big-time politics. So it is not difficult to guess for which candidate the Communists will solicit support from other candidates running in the eighth polling station in the Russian capital.

Andrey Zverev