Ahead of the steam locomotive

The Communist Party is looking for a promising candidate as an alternative to the invariable

A year ago, New Gazeta reported that the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party could receive a new leader or at least another candidate for the main post in the country by the presidential election in 2018. And although in November, Gennady Zyuganov himself was actively preparing to run, rumors that his younger associate would be extended from the party were again updated. The leader of the Communist Party has already hinted that he would have preferred a replacement for himself as a contender for the presidential post of the director of the Lenin Pavel Grudinin state farm near Moscow. “The company Pavel Grudinin was the best in the country, and it is no coincidence that its candidate is actively considered by all folk patriotic forces, but the decision is made by the congress by secret vote,” Zyuganov said. Meanwhile, other party members claim the role of presidential candidate.

The Communist Party will make the final decision on this issue on Saturday, December 23, at the party congress. On the eve of the Voting, Novaya Gazeta asked experts and representative of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the prospects of the new candidate from the Communists in the elections.

Alexander Kynev

Political scientist

- I think this will affect the results of the party in the upcoming elections exclusively. When they say that the Communist Party will lose something-this is stupidity and provocation. It is quite obvious in the ratio of the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections: Zyuganov and the Communist Party have a electoral geography, and the Communist Party itself - the party is more urban.

Zyuganov is not a “steam locomotive” in the traditional sense of the word, because his personal image has much more negative associations among voters than the image of the party. Therefore, the change of the candidate, and to a completely charismatic glozinin, which manys in many positive emotions and is not perceived as an orthodox candidate, will remove some phobias related to the voting of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party. In this sense, Grudinin will be able to claim a much wider electorate than the party traditionally claims.

Gleb Pavlovsky

Political scientist

- The party is involved in a fictitious and falsified election procedure. The nomination of any candidate cannot positively affect her. Zyuganov risks, giving way to Grudinin, because an automated communist electorate, which automatically voting for a meaningless candidate, may not go astray and not understand why he should vote for a new candidate. That is, the Communist Party of the Communist Party will lose old voters, but will not acquire new ones. For Zyuganov, it would be more important for the last time to go on stage, stomp with a boot and say something memorable, but it seems that it is already squeezing out by the apparatus itself, having a false idea that with Zyuganov’s departure the party will turn around.

Dmitry Novikov

Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on Ideology

- Tomorrow on Saturday we will decide at its congress. A year ago, Gennady Andreevich named the names of those people who could be nominated for this post. Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin was also on this list, so his candidacy is now continuing to be discussed. Even in that list, a large circle of people was called: Yuri Boldyrev, Leonid Kalashnikov, Andrei Klychkov, Yuri Afonin, Dmitry Novikov, your humble servant, Victor Sobolev, Sergey Baburin. During the election campaign, we will certainly create the highest council of patriotic forces, which will accumulate all the election work. In the event of the victory of our presidential candidate, the presidential position itself should be put under serious social-state control, so we will offer not only the candidacy for the president, but also the candidate for the post of chairman of the Higher State Council. But, I repeat, in addition to Grudinin, a number of surnames are called.