Dmitry Gudkov: "Serial Governor"

“In Primorye, we now have a new attraction: a serial governor. Is there any more politician in Russia or the world who leads the three regions? Amur, Sakhalin, now Primorye. But not only is it interesting,” the politician in Facebook writes, summing up the results of the repeated elections of the head of the Primorsky Territory.

“The elections are technically, of course, won. 61 percent, in the first round - Kiriyenko can be congratulated on a success. But do you need? After all, the victory was not received by the votes of voters, but by the usual admin resist. Primorye is unlikely to forget the delivery to the OMON region for the dispersal of long -standing protests.

How were the elections won (quotes, of course)? The former winner, Ishchenko, was not allowed on them - once. Two: here they write that this time not without violations. Three: gave green light to all the initiatives of Kozhemyako and its technologists, up to the "transfer of the capital of the Far East" from Khabarovsk. It sounds as if there is a federation in the Russian Federation, and the stay of those who look from the Kremlin not in one, but in another region decides something for residents. Although there will be elections in Khabarovsk - will the nomadic "capital" will go back?

And all the other bonds - they are only on paper: he wanted to give it, he wanted to take it back. Could voters demand something from the governor? No. There are no mechanisms for this.

So tactically - victory. And strategically, they put serial Kozhemyako on a powder barrel. Wait: it rushes, not rush.

In the Kremlin, of course, yesterday they shot champagne at the ceiling, but what do we care, which tower was now hung out a victorious flag? What, from this repression will end, dungeons will collapse, and freedom will meet us joyfully at the entrance? No. That's it and it. "