Victory in Yakubovich

The primaries of Yabloko to nominate a candidate for mayor of Moscow won Yakov Yakubovich. But he will not go to the polls from the party

When on the evening of June 4 it became obvious that the head of the municipal council of the Tver Yakov Yakubovich wins on the in-party primaries of Yabloko with a significant advantage, blood pressure from jokes about the “field of miracles” was predictably unfolded in the comments on YouTube Translation. The most original of them, bordering on pre -election technology, was that Yakubovich was elected to the candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow so that people see a familiar surname in the ballots, are touched and placed in the right place. But the head of the municipal district of Tverskaya Yakubovich did not use his “chance” sector on the drum. At a briefing, according to the results of the vote, he suddenly stated that he was taking self -expert.

Member of the Yabloko party Maxim Katz tells the “New” that it was a very strange statement. After the announcement of the results, Yakubovich disappeared for two hours, and when he returned, he was blackened by the clouds and said that he could not go through the municipal filter: there it was necessary to collect not only the signatures of the “apple” deputies, but also the United Russia, but “this task for me is not fulfilling”. “I do not want to bring you down, I do not want to bring the party. I am sure that there is a person who will succeed, ”the owner of 57% of the loser Sergei Mitrokhin nodded virtually. Then Yakubovich left and turned off the phones, leaving his supporters in shock.

“About the municipal filter, I talked about the municipal filter long before his nomination. Of course, he initially knew the whole picture. There could be no news in this. This statement was like a video of the apology to Ramzan Kadyrov, ”Katz lamented.

Inside the party in Yakubovich’s act, some see a conspiracy - but not an intra -party, but who came from the outside.

“If the party’s leadership wanted to nominate Mitrokhin, they would have advanced it without any primaries. No one could resist this. For the city hall, Mitrokhin is the best candidate than Yakubovich. As far as I know, this is already known for a year - that the city hall is planning a scenario of calm elections, ”Maxim Katz openly hints. “Therefore, they make sure that there are no unusual candidates who have at least some chance of success.” That is why Mitrokhin wanted here. Its percentage is known, understandable, and no coalition can arise. ”

Party Chairman Emilia Slabunova believes that the matter is not even in a conspiracy, but in a large “pressure”. “Everyone perfectly understands what pressure those daredevils who are ready to go on such a difficult road are subjected to. We allowed this, warned and said that he would surely immediately be subject to such a strong pressure. Of course, this is pressure from the authorities, ”she says“ new ”.

Everything would be nothing, but in public disputes it is clear that Mitrokhin’s supporters were primarily pressed on Yakubovich. The deputy of Alexander Parsushin even launched a discussion on Facebook on the topic "Jacob, you are wrong!"

“Yakov Yakubovich (we met him about a year ago) - the person is quite nice,” Parushina said on the eve of the announcement of the vote on June 4. “But excuse me, this is not enough.” In some interview, he said that a year ago he did not even know that he would somehow go into politics. It's just not serious. Even I am not trying to go to mayor, although I have a human rights experience for 10 years, but I have been working to a greater extent in the area. I don’t have enough such resources. Why disgrace yourself and substitute people? Why these experiments? For your own PR? "

The Situation in Yabloko in a limbo: the federal bureau even before the start of the primaries said that she would support their winner. The winner refused-and now it is necessary to collect the executive committee, but he is going to the executive committee only if there is an application from one of the candidates to be registered as a nominee for the mayor’s elections. So far, Mitrokhin is obvious as the main candidate, but with a minority of votes, even inside his own party, this nomination will look like a mockery of his own colleagues, his opponents are sure. As alternative options, it is proposed to nominate, for example, Elena Rusakov (she took fourth place in the first round and is considered the creature of the chairman of Yabloko Emilia Slabunova), Andrei Moreva (winner of the third place in the first round) or not to nominate anyone at all - so as not to discredit the party even more.

It is unlikely that the same Mitrokhin will agree with this. Immediately after the vote and even before Yakubovich’s self -discharge, his chief competitor collapsed with his opponents. “The victory was won by a hardware click, which is unhappy that the Moscow“ Yabloko ”has its own independent position on political issues, refuses to dance to the pipe of some hardware leaders,” Mitrokhina RBC quotes. In his person, the owner of the second place said, Lost Yavlinsky (the party leader openly campaigned for his comrade and even recorded a video). Now, when Mitrokhin won in fact, the Executive Party will not just put forward it and no less difficult not to put forward it. Mitrokhin himself did not pick up the phone on Tuesday.

(True, in the commentary of Interfax, Mitrokhin has already stated that he still intends to go to mayor from the party. The executive committee on this issue is scheduled for Friday, June 8.)

There is one more option on getting out of an unpleasant situation in all respects. On Sunday, June 3, a congress of municipal deputies was held in Moscow, at which Ilya Yashin, Dmitry Gudkov and Sergey Mitrokhin seemed to have agreed that they could coordinate the overall opposition agenda in this election. General - depending on who will be registered as a candidate. If someone alone, the rest will support him. If all three, then two withdraw their candidacy in favor of the third. Whoever will be - could be decided according to the results of the meeting “for three” houses by mother Ilya Yashin for pies (Dmitry Gudkov also offered to throw a coin). True, the same Gudkov laid certain hopes precisely on Yakubovich: "He seemed to play for a single candidate."

There was another option-to declare an ultimatum: either the city hall registers everyone, or receives only Anton Krasovsky to sparring partners (not very obvious, however, that the mayor's office is so afraid of this scenario).

The possibility of a compromise themselves is not evaluated by the congress participants too high. Mitrokhin flirted: they say, I’m not a candidate, and the party should be consulted, and Ilya Yashin and Dmitry Gudkov could not agree on the details.

“On the one hand, if everyone is registered, there is a probability of a second round, but on the other hand, this greatly demoralizes our supporters. If three opposition democratic candidates are nominated against Sobyanin at once, people have a desire to wave their hands, and the turnout among the supporters of the democrats is greatly reduced. Maybe there will be a second round, only a representative of the Communist Party will be released there, ”Yashin said“ New ”.

Now, when everything turned upside down in Yabloko, the same Gudkov claims that six months ago he assumed such an outcome.

“To be honest, I thought that Mitrokhin’s nomination would happen in a slightly different way - it was nominated at a meeting of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, ignoring the results of the primaries. But there are many options for designing long -made decisions. Moreover, this whole story was an occasion to interfere with the nomination of a single candidate, ”Gudkov wrote on his Facebook.

Pirogov, in general, may not be. True, Ilya Yashin himself hoped that in any composition the opposition city halls could still gather. And the story with Yabloko is only part of the democratic movement: the same Yashin, according to the “new” information, could unite with Parnassus (in Parnassus he did not confirm and did not refute, noting that, if Yashin would be a single candidate from the opposition, with his nomination “there would be no problems”). This also did not happen.

PS

In the commentary, Yakov Yakubovich said that he decided to withdraw his candidacy after, after the end of voting on the primaries, he was refused to help to overcome the municipal filter from the “very wise and respected politician”.