Petr Milovanov: “No infrastructure - no candidate”

“Suppose you woke up one day with the thought, “Enough of this; You can’t live like that; “Who else if not me” and decided that it would be necessary to impose competition on Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in the presidential elections,” the public figure writes on his Facebook page.

“We need to draw up a plan on how to do this. We looked at the laws on elections and found out that Russian citizens over 35 years of age who fulfill some qualification requirements have the right to be a candidate.

Yep, there are 3 options:

1. Nomination from a parliamentary party. Doesn't suit us.

2. Nomination from a non-parliamentary party. And collecting 100,000 voter signatures in support. We need to find a non-parliamentary party, we have many of them, several dozen, these are mostly fake parties that perform spoiler functions.

3. Nomination by a self-nominated candidate without a party. With the collection of 300,000 signatures from voters.

Let's look further. It turns out that everything is not so simple with the collection of signatures. In the second case, the law requires that there be no more than 2,500 signatures from one region, in the third, no more than 7,500 signatures. So the situation begins to play with new colors. It is necessary to create at least 40 (or better 50, and in the third case 60) teams in the regions, each of which will collect 2000-2500 signatures of voters.

Oh, what are 2000 signatures? Isn't this a piece of cake? What the hell teams, we’ll gather everything on Instagram. For Moscow and St. Petersburg, this is, of course, a minor matter. But let's look at the fortieth largest region of Russia, we will also have to collect there. Yeah, Ulyanovsk region - 1.25 million people. So, we won’t be able to collect throughout the Ulyanovsk region, only in Ulyanovsk. So, 620 thousand people, which means about 400 thousand voters. Wow, the Yabloko party collected 2,650 anonymous ticks on the ballots in Ulyanovsk during the last elections to the State Duma. It looks like you’ll have to work hard in this Ulyanovsk, you can’t get it together with Instagram alone.

So, what are signatures of support anyway? Wow, do you have to take people’s passport details? Fill it out by hand, oh, why is that even necessary? What is this? If you write “region” on the collection sheet. instead of "area", the signature is INVALID? What kind of mockery is this?

Okay, let's go back. What do we need to collect? Probably, a collection point should be opened somewhere in the center so that people can come and leave their signature there. Is this enough? We still need to tell people about this so that they know, and even then many will be lazy. I'm too lazy to go to the nearest school for elections. We'll probably have to hire more assemblers. So, they still need to be trained and monitored so that they don’t give us the drawing themselves. Yes, it looks like we really need a team with an office in Ulyanovsk. Oh, not only in Ulyanovsk. We need 50 teams across Russia. Damn, just successful one-hour interviews with candidates for regional chiefs of staff will take one working week. We also need to rent premises, some decent ones, not in the outskirts. Yes, we will have to build a working ramified infrastructure.

Are you tired of reading this, too many letters? But this is still a spherical horse in a vacuum. For example, the time factor is not covered in any way. This infrastructure must work in a disciplined and precise manner; time is running out. There should be a minimum number of jambs, and they should be very local. And of course, there is nothing written here about the authorities’ opposition to all this fuss.

The conclusion from all this is very, very simple. An independent candidate must have a high-quality, extensive infrastructure that works like clockwork. No infrastructure - no candidate. Dot.

Therefore, to all those who have announced something about their decision to run for president, ask not fantastic questions about what you will do with Crimea when you become president, but a simple, specific question. You call yourself a presidential candidate, where is your extensive, functioning infrastructure in 50 regions of the country? Isn't she there? You are not a presidential candidate.

Navalny has everything. He completed his summer assignment perfectly."