The primaries of “United Russia” excited a long -passive population of Dagestan for a long time. The artists and athletes, registering for an intra -party vote, raised the mention and recognition index of this vote. Even if not always in a positive context. We will not talk about the artists, after all, our heading is sports. But about the athletes-candidates, most of whom are martial arts, we will talk.

The format of an athlete-deputy is not so new and has long been tested at the federal level. Major and legendary athletes have long learned to change the sports Olympus to the political. Irina Rodnina (in the State Duma since 2007), Alexander Karelin (five (!) Convocations in the State Duma), Vladislav Tretyak (in the State Duma since 2003), Vyacheslav Fetisov (in the Federation Council since 2011) are now more associated with officials and power than with sports and great victories.

Recall that in the current convocation of the State Duma, Dagestan is represented by a three -time Olympic champion Buvaisar Saitiev . Including from Dagestan, Justoross and football coach Valery Gazzaev was elected from Dagestan.

Therefore, the athlete in power is normal. At least in the last 22 years.

And in Dagestan ...

... There are also examples when the sports hall became the forge of political personnel. The brightest is the master of sports of the USSR and Honored Coach of Russia Saigidpash Umakhanov . Hasavyurt mayor, Minister of Industry and Energy, and now an adviser to the head of the Republic of Dagestan. Who now perceives Umakhanov as a former coach, and not as one of Dagestan’s strongest political players?

The 90s were crumpled by men of the Soviet Union and Russia: the collapse of the country, unemployment, poverty. In such a situation, the guys with the iron nerves were immigrants from the sports halls: Umakhanov, the Khachilayev brothers, the Gamidov brothers, the Musaev brothers. In the 90s, they were the main political forces in the republic.

Let us recall the example of the Parliament of Dagestan, where for many years his highlight was the USSR champion in the fight and sambo Surakat Havalovich Asiayatilov . He sometimes chopped from his shoulder, raised quite uncomfortable topics, although he subtly felt the conjuncture. He was a kind of voice of the people in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic since the time of the Supreme Council of the DASSR.

The Minister of Sports Magomed Magomedov, who recently left the post, also showed quite serious results in his work - also a native of freestyle wrestling.

We are not taking to talk about what all these people could achieve, how really helped solve the problems of the Dagestanis. The fact is that they were not lost in politics. Although there were other examples of an unsuccessful entry into politics.

Candidates

Therefore, speaking of current sportsmen, we will not say that they have no place in parliament. Looking at the representatives of the political swamp, who have settled in the People’s Assembly for years and sometimes they won’t say a word, it seems that several athletes will be better to sit there who will not hide their heads in the sand when you need to say a solid word on behalf of the people.

After all, people of sports are often reproached with the fact that they, discussing or condemning some cases or phenomena in society, are not climbing into their business. Like, play sports and do not go where you do not need. And then there will be a real opportunity to speak on behalf of the people.

Well, if it becomes the sings of the political mainstream, it means losing face and respect of people. Perhaps they will not say in the face, but the image of the strong and independent will already collapse. And on occasion they can reproach.

Those who registered in the primaries, we would divide into two groups: soften and ready.

Raw - these are those who have not had the experience of civil service before and, perhaps, are not deeply dedicated to the principles of public administration. They were busy with sports and achieved certain heights in it. This is, for example, the ex-co-fighter of the UFC Rustam Khabilov , the European Wrestling Champion Dauren Kurugliev , the senior coach of the Russian national team in MMA Shamil Alibatrov , the world boxing champion among professionals Khabib Allahverdiev or the Russian national team coach Abdusalam Gadisov (by the way, by the time of writing the article was no longer in the list of candidates).

All of them are worthy people who respect the sports community and among the population. None of them were involved in dirty stories. But party functionaries of United Russia look at the approach of those who see themselves in politics already at the primaries stage. They monitor everything: from photography and video views to media activity during the period of intra -party voting. And here, in order to declare yourself, you need to try a little more than just record an autobiography on the front camera of the phone.

We would include candidates to the category of “ready -made”, for whom sports achievements are more an additional bonus than the main item for pride. They are formed functionaries who understand the principles of the structure of the republican and federal authorities (both formal and informal).

For example, the silver medal of the World Kickboxing Championship and the Russian Championship of the current deputy of the RD Amirkhan Amirkhanov can be lost in his biography, where he is a candidate of science, and the chief lawyer of the Dagestan branch of United Russia, and the master of political science, and the director of the Center for career guidance and labor adaptation.

His colleague on the current convocation of the National Assembly Arsen Shapiev, although a more titled athlete (repeated world champion in Genbling and Jiu-Jitsu), but also has an impressive track record. Here is the candidate dissertation, and the service in the prosecution authorities in Moscow, and study in the RANEPA.

If you watch the videos of Amirkhanov and Shapiev, then their difference from the "raw". Here, clearly marked problems, and not blurry "I will try from the heart!"

Two more candidates, who have long been no newcomers in a political party, are Marat Ibragimov and Jakai Dzhakaev .

The first is a classic example of a properly under construction political career. International Class Sports master and chairman of the sports committee Makhachkala Ibrahimov is so comfortable in the corridors of state and municipal authorities, which even knows how to behave correctly when photo and video cameras are directed at him. The delivered speech, the work put, the authority in the sports and youth environment of the capital of Dagestan. His election to the People’s Assembly with the preservation of the influence and resources of the sports committee will be the next step in the career of a young politician.

Jakai Dzhakaev is an activist no less sophisticated in political movements than Ibragimov.

He is a member of the Party of power since 2011. The vice speaker of the capital's meeting of deputies from 2015 to 2020. Coordinator of the Federal Party Project "Children's Sport".

Well, you must admit that the international grandmaster is a much more suitable candidate for the regional parliament than another thickness or son of a thickness?

Therefore, it is better to confident athletes than silent businessmen. ] § [

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