"See with what a margin our first goes!"

How the headquarters of the United Democrats of Gudkov worked on the night after the election

The headquarters of Dmitry Gudkov, an hour before the end of the vote, works in the call center mode. Volunteers in a small room at the entrance are watching the photographs sent to the common chat, call the Central Election Commission and coordinate the work of observers in the areas.

“Urgently go to the TIK with the commission, information about the stuffing on your site has passed!” - They will learn about violations every ten minutes. The massive delivery of the military to the WICs on the Arbat under the blurred cameras, the vote of the inhabitants of the long -demolished houses, the inscriptions of the pencils on the ballots. Gudkov says that they will not complain about falsification in falsification - they were not massive this time. And the results of these elections at the headquarters are considered a "new success in success."

“ Navalny posted a photo on Instagram as voted,” the girl looks in the iPhone on a huge ottoman in the corner, “voted for the“ Apple ”this time?” What do you think?

Someone comments, not looking up from work: “Well, it is unclear if there was enough conscience. At least for sure not for the LDPR. ”

At exactly eight hours, applause is heard in the headquarters. “The day has passed quickly, the night will go for a long time,” says the guy with a laptop in stickers, among which “tired” and “Navalny 20! 8”. Near it on the board, phones of the hotline of the Voice association and the Yabloko party were written. There are about 30 people in the room, the head of the headquarters Anya gathers everyone at the tables: “Monitoring candidate chats, observers' chats. Divide the protocols, drive into the consolidated table. " Everyone sits down at work. When the PEC report is processed, the employee screams his last name and receives a new site number. This happens every five minutes.

It takes about 20 minutes and in the room where the call center is sitting-the first enthusiastic cries. The guys got the result from their candidate one weekend on Pushkinskaya Street: “Look, with what a margin our first is coming!” Everyone understands that this does not mean absolutely nothing, but in a couple of minutes from the room where the ballots are processing, news about the weekend taken one after another. Those who are at the table throw their hands triumphantly:

- Dude from Mitino writes: I won in my weekend. And the printers are ours, it seems. What about Arbat?

-So far, I see Arbat-1 so far, they have gone-this is where the military was brought. Arbat-2-we take the majority for now.

Gudkov comes to nine and sits together with everyone. He does not yet know the first results and is dissatisfied with the catastrophically low turnout in the capital - 14.5%.

“Of course, we were ready for her, the authorities did not want to inform about these elections,” says Gudkov, “we did all the work of the CEC and the Moscow Government - we went around the apartments, expelled leaflets, which then safely broke the wipers in the morning.” Everyone was done only by those who needed it. We needed it. And I really hope that this story will happen. It's just that we all need her now more than ever.

Meanwhile, news about the WIKs won to the headquarters continues to appear one after another. The center is especially impressive - Khamovniki, Presnya, Yakimanka, Basmann, they suspect the vast majority of “their own” on mandates. About Yakimanka, the girl at the table laughs: “4 out of 5 of ours passed. Only a candidate who did nothing at all went through - and then, she did not have 12 votes. "

The head of the headquarters Maxim Katz with a happy smile scribbles news on Twitter, Telegram and the website Mundep.gudkov.ru. As soon as there are reports of “exact passages”, records information, triumphantly clenches his fists:

- Everyone says with us: apathy, here, politics is no longer interesting to anyone. But most of all I was struck by the number of people who came to us and said that they wanted to be elected. Gudkov and I thought that, God forbid, we will have 300 candidates. And we had 1000 of them, no one even represented this.

Good news comes from the center - the majority in Tver, Krasnoselsky is taken. Outside of the garden ring-the situation is a little worse (somewhere-nothing, somewhere-one mandate manages to seize). Katsu is given information on failures in Lublino, Maryino.

“Well, these are wild places ...,” he still smiles, “Yasenevo is unexpectedly, it’s very sorry that they flew by.”

In the south-west, in Gagarinsky, the "Yabloko" occupy 12 out of 12 possible places, Katz laughs: "The funny thing is that Putin voted there."

Gudkov walks around the headquarters and distributes media comments, his main thesis based on the results of today is: “In Moscow there are no more parliamentary parties except United Russia - and indeed, according to the ratio of the won, the following -“ Yabloko ” - only ours, who were in our team, went from our platform from the Communists! This is the victory of Moscow. Because these people will not end today, tomorrow-they will continue non-stop policy. The only political force that is able to withstand Putin and Sobyanin is the united democrats.

“That's the“ united, ”the guy comments next to me,“ the authorities seem to have not expected such perseverance from us. ” They reduced the turnout as they could, and those who wanted to win, still came and won. We personally made such a result, this is the most awesome. The CEC is now frozen, for sure.

By one in the morning, 1/6 of the ballots were processed. The guys bring huge food bags from McDonald's - sitting until the morning.

Gudkov brings the guitar. Katz looks fascinated at the laptop screen-they write about the victory even where they did not wait at all: “Three in Ochakovo-Matveevsky? Strogino on the verge! ” Gudkov asks "even Strogino?" Katz says: “Strogino is an active area, why are you? I equipped everyone there. ”

- In Kurkino, not one of the United Russia did not pass. But there is my team too. United Russia has a conflict there.

- And in Krasnoselsky Yashin, it seems, the Munsobrony will lead.

The winning candidate from the "printers" arrives, he is met by applause, the girl nearby, tired, but exclaims with a happy smile: "Well, when we thought about this ...".

After processing almost all the votes by the morning of Monday, it became clear: the Gudkov team will have a representative office, at least in 40 districts of Moscow. In 14 of them, the Gudkovsky took most mandates, which means that in these areas the question of changing the head of the council may arise. Of the more than 1200 headquarters, it is already known that 250 people will become municipal deputies - this is a “amazing figure”, as Gudkov believes. Moreover, these people are not only “apple trees”, there are self -nominated, just Russians, and communists. All those who decided to go to the polls not just from their party, but from a single democratic coalition.