Gloomy starts. Will these elections will be the last for Zhirinovsky and Zyuganov

Vladimir Putin will not have unexpected rivals in the election. But it looks like this is the last time

Gennady Zyuganov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergey Mironov in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Photo: Ilya Talev / RIA Novosti

The Kremlin will not persuade the leaders of the parliamentary parties in Russia not to nominate in the presidential election, putting it in return for the younger, “fresh” candidates, RBC wrote . If you believe the sources of the publication, the campaign will be held according to the old model, and Gennady Zyuganov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergey Mironov will become Vladimir Putin sparring partners. The choice in favor of a simpler, inertial solution gives rise to the question of whether the Kremlin could not or did not want to put pressure on the system parties in order to adapt them to the needs of the presidential campaign.

Talk that in the elections of the President of Russia, scheduled for March 2018, you should create an intrigue by raising the turnout, have been going on since the fall of 2016. This was facilitated by the past Duma campaign. Rutinized, boring and empty, she only strengthened the apathy of voters. The turnout amounted to a record low 47% (at 60% in 2011; 63% in 2007; 56% in 1999). To a certain extent, this was the result of excessive handling: each party understood what it could count on, not really trying to maximize the result. The savings of forces also became the result of a crisis situation in which the battery life turned out to be more difficult.

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