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Andrey Kozenko - About the most interesting winners of the governor's elections
On a single voting day, on September 13, elections of the heads of 21 of the Russian region were held. In three more chapters of the constituent entities of the Federation, they were elected through voting in local parliaments. In 14 cases, the elections were early: the current head of the region went to resign in the spring to confirm his powers in September. Almost everywhere with a result of 51 to 97%, representatives of United Russia won. Only in the Smolensk region will the governor be a member of the LDPR (United Russia did not exhibit its candidate here), and the second round will be held only in the Irkutsk region. The special correspondent of Medusa Andrei Kozenko talks about the most interesting candidates and governors who won the elections.
Aman Tuleyev has already told the biography of the permanent - since 1997 - the Governor of the Kemerovo Region, Aman Tuleyev. After a single voting day, only the following can be added. Tuleyev gained 96.7% of the vote - more than anyone in these elections in Russia.
In fairness: not a single political party put a candidate in the Kemerovo region, capable of taking more than a couple of interest. However, the turnout (it is generally accepted that the larger the turnout, the less possibility for manipulating the results) in Kemerovskaya was at 85%. For comparison: in the Amur and Irkutsk regions, the turnout was less than 30%, and on Sakhalin - 37.5%. Thus, Tuleyev is not just a political long -liver, but also the most popular regional politician in Russia. Only the heads of the Caucasian regions could compete for popular love with it, but there are practically no direct elections.
The second place in popularity among voters is divided by the re -elected head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov (95.3%) and the new governor of the Krasnodar Territory Benjamin Kondratyev (83.7%).
Minnikhanov, who was managing Tatarstan since 2010, had a planned one-in the spring he ended the powers, and President Vladimir Putin appointed him and. O. Chapters for the absence of both serious complaints and competitors. Elections in Tatarstan were held like a holiday, accompanied by concerts and selling inexpensive food. In the Buinsky and Almetyevsky districts of the republic, 99.7 and 99.6% of voters voted, respectively.
Kondratyev - by education, philologist and lawyer - worked in the administration of the Krasnodar Territory since 1994. By the time of the resignation of the previous governor Alexander Tkachev, he went to Moscow - to the Presidential Affairs Management. However, then he returned to his position and. O. head of the region. Judging by the plots of local media, Kondratyev communicates with local officials about as patronizing as his predecessor. And over the mayor of Sochi Anatoly Pakhomov, he even mocked : "At such a price [for products], maybe people just began to eat less?"
The least among the selected heads of regions was gained by Alexander Kozlov in the Amur Region - 50.64% of the vote. On the one hand, he is one of the youngest chapters of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation - he is only 34 years old, and only in March of this year did local media deleted him from the list of the most enviable grooms of the region (due to the wedding). On the other hand, Kozlov is far from a beginner. He already held two ministerial posts in the government of the Amur Region - for construction and housing and communal services. In September 2014, he won direct elections of the mayor of Blagoveshchensk, gaining almost 40% of the vote. Kozlov would still gain experience, but then there was an arrest of the Sakhalin Governor of Khoroshavin. The Amur Governor Oleg Kozhemyako, who was calmly led by the region for seven years, went to perform his duties (now he is already elected governor, and immediately with a result of 67.8%). The next link in this chain became Kozlov - in March it became and. O. The Governor of the Amur Region, in June, United Russia delegated him to the polls.
The head of Mari El Leonid Markelov barely escaped the second round, gaining only 50.7%. He, like Tuleyev, is one of the Russian political long -livers. The first time the presidents of the Republic of Markelov ran in 1996, but then he lost to the previous head of Mari El, communist Vyacheslav Kislitsin. In 2000, he took a revenge, and since then the post of head of Mari El has not left. Markelov has a rather peculiar sense of humor, which the whole country recently learned about - after the governor's promise to unravel the road (built, by the way, for federal money) to the village of Shimshurg, because its inhabitants “grumble, growl” and generally dissatisfied. The scandal reached the Supreme Court of the Republic and the Presidential Administration. The inhabitants of Shimshurgi had to write an explanatory in the worst Soviet traditions: “We are offended to the core of our souls how the words of Leonid Igorevich were distorted by journalists and those who are behind this dirty provocation. But an attempt to ruin the holiday that came to our houses with the opening of the road to our settlement and the feldsher-obstetric point will not be possible, no matter how hard anyone tried. ” Markelov himself in his characteristic manner doubted that he was on the dispersed video: “Maybe there was a subfotochopyopy of my moska.”
In this story there are at least two positive points. The inhabitants of Shimshurgi were not offended by Markelov - he scored 50.5% of the vote in this village. At the same time, the scandal with Markelov forced me to recall: in some places an election campaign is underway in Russia, and there they choose governors.
The Governor of the Kaliningrad Region Nikolai Tsukanov gained 70.5% of the vote. These were his first direct elections. Tsukanov is quite average by Russian standards, the governor, but in history will go as the first head of the Kaliningrad region, which managed to re -elect for a second term; Not one of his predecessor succeeded. The political intrigue of the season is also associated with the region: whether the former head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin will agree to present it in the Federation Council. Moreover, the rank of ambassador (the necessary formality, in order not to fall under the qualification of sedentary in the area where Yakunin never lived), as it turned out, was assigned back in 2014.
In the Kostroma region - the only one where the “democratic coalition” was made before the elections to the regional Duma - Sergey Sitnikov was elected the governor. In the late 1990s, he worked in the Regional Committee on Youth Affairs and organized festivals of a bard song. At the beginning of the zero, he led Kostroma VGTRK. And in 2008 he became the first head of Roskomnadzor, who was created on the basis of the Federal Service for Supervision of Mass Communications, Communications and Protection of Cultural Heritage. It was he who issued an order by which the responsibility for users' comments on Internet media entitled to the media editor (the order almost became the basis for the closure of the popular Yekaterinburg portal Ura.ru, which was at that time led by Aksana Panova). Sitnikov worked in Roskomnadzor until 2012, then he was approved by the governor of the Kostroma region, and this Sunday he first became the elected governor.
In the Smolensk region, the governor’s elections were held for the first time since 2002, and Alexei Ostrovsky won here, the only governor who was elected in these elections not from United Russia - he went to the elections from the LDPR. True, United Russia did not exhibit its candidate here and supported Ostrovsky. As a result, the Zhirinovsky party may be proud - when their candidate was still gaining more than 65%.
Ostrovsky began as a stingier journalist and became famous for selling a Time magazine the plot of children's prostitution in Russia, which turned out to be staged. Until 2012, he was a deputy of the State Duma from the LDPR, and then received his appointment to the Smolensk region. Now Ostrovsky also first became popularly elected. During summer preparation for the race and. O. The governor solemnly opened the Bitumen production plant, which once solemnly opened previous authorities in 2009. Some absurdity of what was happening was explained by the fact that after the previous solemn opening at the factory “something went wrong”, and all six years there were commissioned work.
Anatoly Artamonov was elected the governor of the Kaluga region for the next term (heads the region since 2000), who gained more than 72% of the vote. Artamonov is the first in the ranking of the most effective Russian governors. He brought the share of the automotive industry in the region’s budget to 42% - in the Kaluga region several models of Volkswagen cars are collected to Peugeot. True, the auto industry in Russia is now going through difficult times. In an interview with Medusa, Artamonov said that the problem solved. It is optimistic, given that in December last year, the governor simply forbade saying the word “crisis” in the Kaluga region.
Finally, the Irkutsk region will be the only region where the second round will take place in three weeks. Here, a representative of United Russia, Sergei Eroshchenko (49.5% in the first round) and communist Sergey Levchenko (36.6%) will be converged. The last direct elections took place here in 2002-with the same confrontation between the Communists and Unicorn. Then the acting governor Boris Speech received 47% of the vote in the second round, and the communist Levchenko opposed him - 45%. Since then, Irkutsk governors have not worked for more than one period. One of them, Igor Esipovsky, died during a bear hunt - as a result of a helicopter crash in 2009.
Eroshchenko is an entrepreneur. In 2011-2012, he represented the “right business” and was a confidant of the then leader of the party Mikhail Prokhorov. In May 2012, he was appointed governor, in 2015, like many of his colleagues, he decided to go to direct elections with the support of United Russia. Sergei Levchenko - an old communist, for the first time in the governor's election participated in 1997, headed the local branch of the Communist Party, was elected to the State Duma three times and once in the regional. The second round is scheduled for September 27.
Andrey Kozenko
Moscow