In the Kostroma region, the elections are held with the participation of an opposition demo department

In the Kostroma region, where the elections of the governor, as well as deputies of the regional and city thoughts, are held, all polling stations opened, TASS reported in the prostitute. This region is the only one where representatives of the democratic coalition under the Parnas brand were allowed to elections to the regional legislative assembly. Increased attention is focused on the region. On the eve of the head of the CEC, Vladimir Churov said that “external forces” are trying to interfere with honest democratic elections there.

"On a single voting day, all 602 polling stations opened, it is expected that 18 thousand observers will be present. In total, more than 545 thousand residents of the Kostroma region will be able to vote," the press service of the regional government said.

The Kostroma region managed to set a record by the number of parties admitted to the elections: 16 political associations apply for places in the Legislative Assembly.

A number of observers went to the region, online broadcasts are conducted by the New Gazeta and the Demoralization itself. Violations are also actively reported on Twitter by Leonid Volkov, head of the Democial Staff.

The first data on the turnout were published at 10:00: the official average turnout in the region was 6.51%, or 35,297 voters. Slon.ru calculated that on 602 sites on average on the voter were spent 2 minutes.

As previously reported, six candidates apply for the post of head of the region. This is the acting head of the region Sergey Sitnikov, nominated by the regional branch of the United Russia party, the first secretary of the Committee of the regional branch of the Communist Party Valery Izitsky, deputies of the Kostroma regional Duma Yuri Kudryavtsev (LDPR) and Sergey Petukhov ("Fair Russia"). Also, the deputy director of the regional house of folk art, Alexander Tarabrin, nominated by the "Cossack Party of the Russian Federation" and military pensioner Georgy Trushyev (party of the City of Russia ") apply to the post of governor. In an interview with the Russian Air Force, communist Izitsky stated that the increased attention and abundance of observers may have leveled the situation, and he hopes to go to the second round. He considers the current competitor to acting acting Sitnikov.

In the elections to the Kostroma Regional Duma, 36 deputy mandate are subject to replacement, which are claimed by more than 650 candidates from 15 political parties, including Parnassus. To pass into the party’s Duma, you need to gain a minimum of 5% of the vote.