Social Revolutionaries attacked the Communist Party for the administrative resource in Novosibirsk

In the elections in Novosibirsk, she chose rivals from the Communist Party with her target, which won the mayor’s elections two years ago. The Socialist -Revolutionaries filed more than 50 complaints, accusing the Communists of using the admin resource and restricting access to advertising media. The party is trying to try on the role of the only “opposition”.

In its trials, the party reached the Central Electoral Commission, which considered a case on August 17 from the election campaign in Novosibirsk. In general, the Socialist Revolutionaries filed about 50 complaints about the actions of the Communist Party, and in the CEC - 6,

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“Vedomosti” Alexander Lebedev is a member of the regional commission with the right of an advisory vote and assistant to the State Duma deputy Alexander Ageev, who heads the “SR” list in the Novosibirsk region.

The releases of newspapers “For People’s Power”, “Pravda”, “Truth in Western Siberia” of the Communist Party, according to the Socialist Revolutionaries, violates the law on financing the election campaign and election campaign, engaged in campaigning outside the campaign and without payment from the election fund.

In addition, the “SR” demanded to ban the release of “Pravda” with the image of Joseph Stalin, since he is not a candidate from the Communist Party in the election of deputies of the State Duma. In the spring, a legislative ban was imposed on the use of persons not included in the lists of the party. The Communists explained that "the image of Stalin is a stylized pattern." This explanation was arranged by the regional election commander, and then the Central Commission agreed with it.

The Secretary of the CEC Maya Grishina wrote to Alexander Lebedev an official response in which she refers to the “law enforcement practice of election commissions of the Russian Federation” and judicial practice. It indicates that "the image of an individual in the election legislation should be understood as an original image of an individual (citizen)." “Drawings, computer characters, other artistic images, fictional characters (including those whose creation was based on actually existing or existing personalities) do not relate to the images of individuals in the meaning of election legislation,” the Grishina letter says, which

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"Kommersant".

Social Revolutionaries had other claims. In their opinion, they are limited to access to advertising media, delaying the placement of banners, and the communists with such problems in the city allegedly do not encounter. On the contrary, from all the deputies of the City Council and the Legislative Assembly near the mayor are Anatoly Loktem candidates for the State Duma from the Communist Party. “The CEC has been filed in the CEC only against campaigning, we are undercame the administrative resource. In fact, no papers about the fact that we are forbidden to hang banners, but it was said that the answer in some territories we must wait 30 days, and this is a real ban because they will no longer be needed, ”explained Alexander Ageev’s assistant to Vedomosti.

The SR chose a similar strategy in the elections in the Irkutsk region, which is supervised

Governor-communist

Sergey Levchenko. Political scientists interviewed by the publication consider this a conscious choice, since it is convenient to earn points on criticizing local authorities. The Communist Party is now deprived of such an opportunity.

In the Novosibirsk Region, the Socialist -Revolutionaries in local elections in 2015 have already tried to use the Strand Strategy, positioning themselves as the only opposition alternative to “two parties of power” - the region and the city.

The elections to the State Duma will be held on September 18. Half of the deputies will fall into the parliament on party lists, half - in single -mandate districts. Full list of candidates registered in the districts

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