Veterans prospects

Political scientist Alexander Kynev in a commentary for the "Yarnovosti":

“Veterans candidates do not have their own social groups that they could bring to the polls, unlike, for example, from health or education workers, they do not have their own public experience in politics, their own financial resources, and so on. Of course, they can be put forward, but they will have to be elected at the expense of the administrative resource, and this will create an additional voltage and load for regional administrations. In regions where there is a rigid administrative vertical, they can be easily elected, but where there is real competition, I can not imagine the victories of such candidates. I think there will be a demonstrative nomination in districts that will specially be cleared from competitors, and then they will promote such candidates with administrative methods. ”