The former head of the Moscow City Woman Valentin Gorbunov died

The former head of the Moscow city election commission, Valentin Gorbunov, died. This was announced on Sunday on Twitter by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Today Valentina Gorbunov was gone. Since the mid-1990s, he led the Moscow City War and made a huge contribution to its formation and hold a large number of elections to all levels of power. In the last year, Valentin Pavlovich was seriously ill. My condolences are relatives and friends.

- Sergey Sobyanin (@mossobyanin) March 29, 2020

Sobyanin did not name the cause of death, but wrote that in the last year of his life, Gorbunov was seriously ill. He was 66 years old.

Less than two weeks - March 17 - Valentin Gorbunov resigned for health reasons. He headed the election commission in Moscow since 1995. Under his control in the city, scandalous elections to the Moscow City Duma of 2009 were held controversial elections of the mayor of the city of 2003 and 1999, which caused mass protests of the State Duma elections in 2011 and to the Moscow City Duma in 2019.

“It is unfortunate that Gorbunov did not live to the court,” commented on the death of the former head of the Moscow City War Important, oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who himself participated in the elections of the Moscow Mayor in 2013.

It is unfortunate that Gorbunov did not live to the court. Few, in the new history of the country, made such a contribution to the transformation of Russia into a backward country of the third world. Gorbunov forged Moscow elections for 30 years in a row. He stole on his house in Croatia, but could not take him to the grave. https://t.co/zbdnu0v2ha

- Alexey Navalny (@navalny) march 29, 2020

Gorbunov participated in the organization of elections back in the USSR since the end of the 1970s, worked as an employee of the CEC of the USSR, was engaged in elections from public organizations for the first congress of people's deputies of the USSR. He worked in the Mosgorisburkom since 1993. Having headed the commission in 1995, he was re -elected five times, the last time in 2016. Gorbunov ended the term of office in 2021.

Under the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, the opposition called Mosgorisbirk completely controlled by city government. At different times, his resignations were demanded by representatives of almost all opposition forces who took part in the elections in the city. The newspaper Vedomosti wrote that Gorbunov’s resignation was achieved by the head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova, but she failed to break the resistance of another mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin.

Since 1997, when 27 out of 35 members of the so -called Luzhkov list have been held in the Moscow City Duma, Gorbunov regularly ensured the full control of the city parliament of the executive branch, reminded the newspaper the co -chair of the Voice Andrei Buzin.

• In 2005, Gorbunov proposed to remove representatives of political parties from the election commissions. Commenting on this idea, the head of the CEC, Alexander Vishnyakov, noted in an interview with Echo of Moscow, that such proposals "go from those who cannot and do not want to organize free democratic elections in conditions of openness and publicity, and yearning for the old administrative system."
• The new head of the Moscow City Election Commission was Yuri Ermolov, who had previously been to the post of deputy chairman of the same commission.