Alexey Navalny entered the fight in the St. Petersburg municipal elections - and immediately got into a series of provocations

At that moment, when Alexei Navalny gave an interview in the studio of the Echo of Petersburg radio station, the press service of the city courts spread the message: the politician is ready to guilt for the lawn rumpled by the Petersburg opposition (we recall: in the case of a rally on May 5, 2018, the prosecutor's office demands 11 million rubles from activists of the headquarters of Navalny). “When the Putin regimen carries out pressure [...] by recovering an unbearable amount, I cannot stay away,” the official body of the city femid Themis supposedly quoted the words of Navalny.

When the news was called in the Foundation for the fight against corruption, the journalists demanded an explanation. The press secretary of the St. Petersburg courts Daria Lebedeva said that the statement on behalf of the politician received by mail, was accepted and registered. “One of the fundamental principles in civil law is the presumption of good faith,” she said and published a photo of the letter itself. "New" compared the signature on it and other documents taken from the FBK website. Obviously, the signatures differ.

Soon the version appeared, why did anyone need to fake a letter on behalf of the opposition, that is, some city media released two news with contrasting headlines in a row: “Navalny will pay a fine ...” and (after the FBK) “Navalny is not ready to share guilt with supporters”. “He arrived in St. Petersburg and immediately felt a local policy in the style of the 90s ...”-the politician on Twitter responded.

By the way, when Navalny has already left the city,

The Nezigar telegram channel said that in St. Petersburg at the Sokokhno hotel on the 8th line of the Vasilievsky Island, he allegedly met with Evgeny Prigozhin. The published “evidence” were, to put it mildly, unconvincing.

Near the hotel where the politician and his team stopped, the paparazzi really photographed the Kremlin cook. If we take into account that Prigozhin’s office is a two -minute walk from this place, then the “incriminum” is not too significant. Navalny himself suggested that Smolny PR managers could launch this duck.

Do not fight off with a shovel

Three days before the visit to the city on the Neva, Alexei Navalny announced the Battle of St. Petersburg. On his YouTube channel, the politician spoke about the launch of the Smart Voting project, the purpose of which will be to draw up a list of 1570 candidates to participate in St. Petersburg municipal elections in September. “New” has already written that the initiatives for the preparation and training of mundops in St. Petersburg have been conducting “United Democrats” under the leadership of Andrei Pivovarov and “Political Uber” by Dmitry Gudkov and Maxim Katsa since last year. Navalny, who had previously repeatedly called for a boycott of various election campaigns, this time called his strategy an association, the purpose of which is by any means to remove “United Russia” from the leadership of the municipal tips. In this, according to the idea of ​​a politician, the essence of the “smart vote” is:

On each site, to offer the voter the optimal candidate (from any list), who is able to resist the party in power.

It was the thesis about the unification that became the main one at a meeting with supporters in St. Petersburg on February 2. They searched for the collection for a long time, as a result, they stopped at the room of the temple of the icon of three joys in the Vasilyevsky Congress Hall.

“Probably, this is a cunning Beglov plan: to dry us all for dances in the temple,” the Moscow guest joked.

The meeting, which gathered more than 1000 people, lasted 2.5 hours and passed without excesses. In the courtyard nearby, a carrier and several police cars were ongoing peacefully, but the law enforcement officers did not go inside.

Speaking to the supporters, Navalny said that in the upcoming September, the opposition was counting on a turnout of 28-30%. This means (according to the calculations of the opposition), you will need to attract at least 380 thousand people, voting for the candidate on the list of “smart voting”.

Waiting for the “Chechen swing” of falsifications in St. Petersburg, the headquarters of Navalny is going to prepare 100 thousand observers.

"Alexey, when will you call on the streets?" - The question from the audience sounded.

Navalny also did not exclude such a scenario. “If they ( city authorities. - S. R. ) will not allow us to register candidates or arrange falsifications, unprecedented protests should be held in St. Petersburg,” he said to the approving exclamations of the audience. “Such that Beglov could not fight off with his shovel.”

Candidate "Second Tour"

The name of Beglov at the meeting sounded more often than the rest, but about the presence of a clear plan of action at the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg (they will take place on the same day with the municipal - September 8). The fault is the municipal filter, which any strong candidate will not be able to overcome (according to the results of the 2014 election, 90% of places in the municipal councils of St. Petersburg belong to United Russia).

“So far, our candidate is called the“ second round, ”said Navalny.

He himself will not be advanced to St. Petersburg mayors: "I have no right to do so."

Earlier on the air of Echo of St. Petersburg, the politician admitted that he was ready to support anyone who can create real competition by Beglov, naming the name of the deputy of the city Zaks Maxim Reznik. Reznik himself, who was at a meeting with Navalny, disowned from participating in the elections: “I will do everything to avoid this. And without me there are enough candidates. ”

On the eve of the arrival of Navalny in St. Petersburg, a conference of the regional branch of United Russia was held. “Our party is an unconditional leader of opinions throughout the political space of the city,” said Vyacheslav Makarov, secretary of the “EP” and speaker of the EP, speaking to the supporters. “The political field of St. Petersburg should be calm, and this will only depend on us.”

In power and opposition, opinions converge in only one thing: the most important processes in the current political season are precisely in St. Petersburg.

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