The secret of perfect signatures

The CEC counted the signatures of all the candidates who handed them, including newcomers to the highest policy. Whether the Kremlin authorized and for what, experts explain NT

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The Central Electoral Commission announced that all six people who brought the collected signatures to the CEC for registration with a candidate for presidency were successfully passed. At the same time, the percentage of marriage in the autographs passed in the level of 1–1.5% with the maximum permissible marriage of 5%. Thus, the experts of the CEC and the FMS of marriage discovered much less than in the elections in 2012. Then, in particular, 23% of the marriage was found in autographs for Grigory Yavlinsky , as a result of which he could not participate in the elections. True, then he had to collect 2 million signatures, and now 100 thousand, like four more candidates coming from parties (300 thousand were required by Vladimir Putin).

In addition to Putin and registered representatives of the parliamentary parties in Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR) and Pavel Grudinin (Communist Party), to the final stage of the election race, thus, journalist Ksenia Sobchak (“Civil Initiative”), Maxim Suraikin (“Communists of Russia”), authorized for entrepreneurs Boris Titov (Party Party) were allowed. growth), Grigory Yavlinsky (“Yabloko”) and Sergey Baburin (“Russian National Union”).

Political scientists and political technologists answered the New Times on how clean the results of the participants in the final of the election race were and why the Kremlin is convenient for such a list of candidates.

Are there any funds for collecting signatures from a sermon candidate?

Political strategist Abbas Galyamov is sure that neither Baburin, nor Suraikin, nor most other candidates in the regions have any capable infrastructure that can organize the collection of signatures. “Its absence can only be compensated by big money,” the expert said.

“We do not see any signs of mass agitation in the regions, so we can only assume how they collected signatures without people,” Alexander Kynev, assistant professor of the Department of Political Science of the Higher Superior, comes to a similar conclusion.

In fact, the collection of signatures requires about $ 100 thousand (that is, about 60 million rubles). This price includes payment of the collector, logistics: transport, delivery, forms, as well as other costs associated with the organization of the process

Suraykin and Baburin in the financial reports in the CEC reported that 415 thousand and 311 thousand rubles were spent on this procedure, respectively, while the Yavlinsky headquarters spent 20 million.

According to political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin, in fact, the collection of signatures requires about $ 100 thousand (that is, about 60 million rubles). This price includes payment of the collector, logistics: transport, delivery, forms, as well as other costs associated with the organization of the process.

“I do not believe that Baburin’s campaign is absolutely free, and signatures are collected at the expense of volunteers,” says Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Julius Nisnevich. At least Baburin and Suraykin, the authorities gave the opportunity to register in the elections: either helped to find funds, or raise signatures, the expert concludes.

Why didn’t the CEC find fault with autographs?

The fact that the CEC did not eliminate anyone does not mean that the signatures were collected perfectly: the team was given from above not to use the analysis of the signatures as a filter, since in these elections Putin should win in an honest election, the political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin states.

As Kynev specified, the election law is written in such a way that absolutely any signature can be rejected and this decision cannot be challenged. “Therefore, registration in the signatures elections is always a political decision,” he said.

In any signatures you can find a marriage, even if it is not there. In the signatures collected this year, the percentage of errors is confused - 1–1.5%, although it usually ranges in the region of 3-4%. This year, more serious tools are used for the NEWS, as happened with the removal of Navalny

Nisnevich is also sure that in any signatures you can find a marriage, even if he is not there. According to him, in the signatures collected this year, the percentage of error is embarrassed - 1-1.5%, although it usually fluctuates around 3-4%.

This year, more serious tools are used for the NEWS, as happened with the removal of Alexei Navalny from the distance, experts say. According to Oreshkin, this was done much more accurately and more thoughtfully - through legal procedures and court decisions of the Constitutional Court.

Why did the Kremlin let Sobchak

In Sobchak, experts believe, a high anti -rating, and its criticism of the Kremlin is not dangerous. Oreshkin notes that Sobchak says unpleasant things for the system as a whole, but she does not criticize Putin Putin.

“Navalny is dangerous that does not oppose the system as a whole, but calls specific surnames, specific cases, a specific list of real estate,” Oreshkin said.

At the same time, Gallyamov believes, the admission of Sobchak to the elections makes it possible to tell the Kremlin about his democracy: “Look, Sobchak criticizes us, but we still registered it.”

What demonstrates the list of eight?

Political scientists agreed that seven people selected in the company to Putin fit into the design of these elections: three candidates on the left, three candidates on the right.

Political scientist Alexei Makarkin notes that the CEC has registered all the candidates known in the political sphere: representatives of the parliamentary parties Pavel Grudinin and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Yavlinsky, who was first nominated in the president in 1996, Suraykin from the “Communists of Russia”, a competitor of the Communist Party. This list included Baburin, who was once the vice speaker of the State Duma and represents the National Patriots. There is a candidate from business-business ombudsman Titov. Journalist Ksenia Sobchak, like Yavlinsky, became a candidate of a liberal flank.

Another reason for the registration of all the signatures of the candidates Kynev calls the demonstration of the political image: see what a fair CEC we have, which did not refuse to the submitted signatures

As Oreshkin clarifies, all registered candidates represent a permitted, systemic political spectrum.

Another reason for the registration of all the signatures of the candidates Kynev calls the demonstration of the political image: see what a fair CEC, which did not refuse the signature to any of the submissions. This is an attempt to respond to criticism of Navalny: "Everyone who has fulfilled the requirement of the law, we registered, the rest are to blame."