Moscow municipal revolution

How the opposition took the majority in the elections to the district councils

Photo: duma.mos.ru

The opposition in the municipal elections in Moscow received a significant number of places. With the support of Dmitry Gudkov, 266 candidates were elected. The “solidarity” took the majority in the Krasnoselsky district, “Yabloko” in 6 municipalities. The opposition to the victories traced the New Times to the victories.

Two cars fought

On Sunday, September 10, the co -chair of the Solidarity Ilya Yashin expected to get a decent result for his team in the elections to the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky district. Three observers were on duty at each site, the candidates also tried to choose a place for observation. Yashin himself traveled to all areas. The five candidates in each of the two districts of the district hoped for a decent result, but it seems that the receipt of the majority was a surprise for them. According to the results of the voting, Solidarity had 7 out of 10 seats in the district council - now the movement can choose its chairman and influence budget processes. Krasnoselsky district found himself among other municipalities (according to the headquarters of the ex-deputy of the State Duma Dmitry Gudkov, who supported the nomination of more than a thousand opposition candidates for municipalities, such areas of such areas), where the opposition defeated the United Russia, but the case is unique. Ilya Yashin and his team initially stated in agitation about claims to power in a single municipality, they were supported by both Gudkov and Alexei Navalny. “We have a confrontation between two political forces - an administrative resource and a team of“ solidarity ”. Two electoral machines of different assembly models fought - administrative and volunteer. It is difficult for single people against this background to achieve results - in the area the Communists and "Yablons" campaigned for themselves. We are counting on the cumulative effect, few teams understand this, ”Ilya Yashin tells NT in the break between travels. As the results of the elections showed, the calculations of his teams were justified.

“We have a confrontation between two political forces - an administrative resource and a team of“ solidarity ”. Two electoral machines of various assembly models fought - administrative and volunteer "

Of course, the victory of "solidarity" had to fight - in the area there was a high percentage of the homeless voting, and observers were leaving for those who wanted to those who wanted to. “This is the manipulation of the city hall of a completely understandable property. Social workers affect the elderly, they say that if they vote not for United Russia, then social assistance will not be provided. Of course, this has nothing to do with reality, illegally, but social workers give out lists of the right candidates, ”said Ilya Yashin. However, the subdominal vote from the city hall did not help very much. According to the opposition, the city hall decided not to resort to completely obvious manipulations, such as the vote of foreign citizens. "They realized that we will fix such things!" - believes Yashin.

His ally, Ilya Mishchenko, explains that the district is divided into two districts - one is closer to the center, the other - in the area of ​​the area of ​​three stations. “These are different problems. There are many old houses in the districts in the district, which is crying for renovation. You can work with everyone with whom it doesn’t work out - we are not working, ”Mishchenko explained.

City Hall will have to be considered

“Yabloko” also performed successfully in the elections: many participants in the so -called “Gudkov list” ran for the lists of the party. Former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov launched a volunteer campaign to support independent candidates, and although it was accompanied by scandals (some candidates dropped out of the coalition due to conflicts with the head of the headquarters Maxim Katsa), 266 people became deputies-including one of the most media figures of the campaign Lyusa Stein and the special corner of the New Newspaper Ilya Ilya Azar. Yabloko took the majority in 6 municipal tips. In the Gagarinsky district, the party received all the places, and in this area Vladimir Putin voted, who assured the journalists that he had made a “conscious choice” and got acquainted with the biographies of candidates. “Success has become possible thanks to the coalition with the Gudkov team, the active work of candidates and the support of Muscovites who came to the polls, despite the fact that the authorities did everything to be a minimum,” said NT party spokesman Igor Yakovlev. The turnout in the elections really left much to be desired and amounted to 14.5%.

According to the headquarters of Dmitry Gudkov, EP lost the majority in 17 areas, and this is a serious success. However, his headquarters set himself a larger task - the candidates should have won at least 110 districts, this figure will allow Gudkov to pass the municipal filter in the Moscow Mayor’s election next year. As a result, many candidates passed, but they represent only a little more than 60 districts.

“The city hall will have to be considered the fact that in the election of the head of the city there should be a candidate from the Democrats who showed themselves as a serious power, otherwise they will not be legitimate”

“The results of the elections are such that the issue of the filter recedes into the background and is not so acute. The unification of the Democrats took place in Moscow, the coalition acted so successfully that other parties did not come close to this result. The city hall will have to be considered the fact that in the election of the head of the city there should be a candidate from the Democrats who showed themselves as serious power, otherwise they will not be legitimate. If the turnout was 20%, then we would have held 350 candidates, so the mayor's mayor dried, ”said NT Dmitry Gudkov.

Indeed, the city administration mildly did not zeal with the informing of Muscovites about the elections. Residents of the capital began to receive SMS-owners only after the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova criticized this silence about the campaign. “There are several days left, correct the situation as much as possible so that all your huge work is not crossed out,” she called by the chairman of the Moscow City Subric Criminal Criminalist Valentina Gorbunova. Immediately before the voting day, the scandal flared up in Novo-Peredelkino, where the head of the local council Svetlana Antonova gave instructions to the election of election commissions to falsify the elections and handed them some envelopes. “Now our fate depends, the whole council of money and time depends> on how we will hold the elections,” the official exhorted. The video with her words ended on the Internet, and Sergey Sobyanin fired Antonov. “We are trying to hold the most honest elections. But, apparently, not everyone likes it. For gross violations in Novo-Pedelkino, he fired the head of the council, the deputy head of the council. The documents on Monday will be transferred to the prosecutor's office. All chairmen of election commissions in the area were replaced, ”the mayor wrote on his Facebook. So far, the city hall says that they are ready to work with the newly elected opposition councils, but the administration is trying to reduce their number. In the Timiryazevsky district, 8 out of 15 seats were received by the team of Yulia Galyamina - the Yablokniki and the self -nominated, as a result, they counted in one of the sections of the voice, and one place, which means most passed to the United Russia. Oppositionists will fight for this place in the courts.

Victory over the sofa

Dmitry Gudkov talks about another victory - a victory over the "sofa party." “People did not stay at home, went to the polls, showed an example to others. This means that in the mayor’s elections we have high chances of winning, not even on the second round! ”He expects.

“People did not stay at home, went to the polls, showed an example to others. This means that in the mayor’s elections we have high chances of winning, not even to the second round! ”

By the way, the project to nominate municipal deputies will continue to live: Dmitry Gudkov intends to promote the nomination of opposition candidates for municipalities in St. Petersburg, they will be held in 2019. Julia Galyamin already called the victorious opposition deputies to the forum. Without negative consequences, the election, despite the result, did not cost. For example, Dmitry Gudkov gently reproached Alexei Navalny for not supporting him in the elections to the State Duma and did not campaign for opposition candidates. He himself had already announced that the municipal headquarters would not be dissolved - the politician began to prepare for the mayor’s elections. “We are starting a new campaign. We begin to prepare for the mayor’s elections, and our headquarters continues to work, ”he explained at a press conference. Dmitry Gudkov is configured to nominate from Yabloko, but the head of the Moscow party, Sergei Mitrokhin, also intends to run for. “According to the results of these elections, I am even more strengthened in my intention to nominate my candidacy for the post of mayor of Moscow,” Mitrokhin said. He intends to pass the municipal filter with the help of United Russia. “There are also their processes in United Russia, there are many people who sympathize with us, among the deputies who have passed from United Russia, there are those who are ready to personally put a signature for me, I personally talked with them, and they promised it to me,” the apple tree said. Dmitry Gudkov is hoping to go with him in the team, but Sergei Mitrokhin does not intend to retreat from his plans. Not one campaign could end in Moscow, so another immediately started in the city.