Mari El: Evstifeev and Markelov's heritage

“ Markelov’s case” can significantly affect the alignment of forces in Mari El. But for the acting head of the republic, Alexander Evstifeev, this creates not only opportunities, but also risks.

Speaking about the political consequences of the case against the ex-head of Mari El, it is worth recalling his other defendants. Nikolai Krivash , according to October 2016, is the second largest state among deputies of the State Assembly Republic. Nevertheless, about the sale of his key asset in the region, the Akashevskaya poultry farm, this entrepreneur announced last fall. That is, as far as one can judge, they took a course to curtail activity in the region before Markelov’s resignation. It is worth noting that this businessman began his career in the Komi Republic, having come to Mari El only in the mid-2000s.

Another person involved in the case is Natalya Kozhanova , the head of the television company 12 region. Contrary to the deceptive name, this structure, according to Kozhanova herself, was the “leading investor of the construction market” of the republic, “on the account of which is more than 100 objects that created the unique appearance of Yoshkar-Ola.” Among them are both shopping centers and public buildings. Business games in the field of development and real estate operations, as a rule, are one of the first to feel the consequences of the change of the head of the region. Even if Leonid Markelov himself for some reason was “behind the brackets” of a criminal investigation, the interest of law enforcement officers in Kozhanova would show that the influence of the team of the former chapter in the republic would be seriously undermined.

By inheritance from Markelov , Alexander Evstifeev gets his government, many ministers of which are at a very respectable age. For example, the first deputy prime minister Nikolai Kuklin is now 64 years old, the deputy prime minister of social development of the region Nadezhda Klimina -60, the Minister of Education and Science Galina Shvetsova -68. It is interesting that the first deputy prime minister Mikhail Vasyutin , being younger than many colleagues in the government of the republic (he is 57 years old), is a political long-liver-in the office of the regional ministers, he He entered in 1997, when the head of Mari El was a longtime rival Markelov Vyacheslav Kislitsyn .

Such an age composition of the Cabinet of Ministers in itself is an excuse for its large -scale update. It seems to be the first meeting of the government with the participation of Alexander Evstifeev began with a critical notes. So, the acting head of the region recalled that "we have only debts with cosmic." Another thing is that finding new personnel will not be so simple. The parish to the Varangian region is usually associated with the advent of a whole team of personnel from the side with it. But not every official will agree to move to the most richest region. Probably, together with Evstifeev , people from various groups of influence associated not only with him personally will come to the government of the republic. Mikhail Babich will probably have its influence on the formation of a new team in the Volga Federal District, whose complex relations with Markelov were discussed quite widely. By the way, for the former chief federal inspector for the region , Pavel Loginov , experience in such a stressed area became a step for transition to another position - recently he was appointed head of the Department of Internal Policy of the Embassy apparatus. However, earlier the press also read him a larger career, considering this official one of the possible replacements of Markelov at the head of the republic.

When forming a new leadership team in Mari El, their word and corporations are influential outside the republic. And the interest of external players in the region has already been manifested. For example, the Akashevskaya Poultry Farm, one of the largest Broiler meat producers in the country, has already been controlled by the Kuban agricultural complex named after N.I. Kotacheva. "

Finally, the blow inflicted on the command of Markelov after he became a defendant in a criminal case means that a local opposition was left without a serious counterweight. This is Alexander Evstifyev will be forced to take into account. It is significant that a few days after the appointment, he met with the head of the Communist Party faction in the State Socialist of the Republic, Gennady Zubkov , his colleague in the faction, popular in the region, director of Zvenigovsky, Ivan Kazankov , as well as the son of the latter, the State Duma deputy from the same party Sergei Kazankov , who won the elections in September 2016 to win the elections Mari single -mandate district No. 22. It should be noted that then the candidate from the Communist Party was ahead of his rival from United Russia Larisa Yakovlev in all three urban districts of the region-Yoshkar-Ola, Volzhsk and Kozmodemyansk, where about half of the population of the republic lives together.

The situation for any leader of Mari El is complicated by the fact that the Communist Party here is stronger than any other opposition forces. For example, “Fair Russia” in the Duma elections-2016, according to the election commission, did not overcome the five percent barrier in the region at all. Truth, Alexander Evstifeev has already entered into a dialogue with the LDPR, meeting with the head of the corresponding faction in the State Assembly Evgeny Remnev .

However, now representatives of the regional branch of the Communist Party are precisely demonstrating readiness for dialogue. The review of the same Sergei Kazankov about Evstifeev is more than complimented: “A lively and smart look is that the first thing was caught in the eye when meeting on the first full -fledged day of work of the acting head of the republic ... It feels that he understands what he was talking about.”

Therefore, the more probability of not a tough competitive campaign in September 2017, but the readiness of local representatives of the party for constructive interaction with the new leadership of Mari El. Perhaps this factor will also affect the formation of a team of the new head of the republic.

Neizhmakov Mikhail , leading analyst at the Agency of Political and Economic Communications

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