It’s hard to carry, but it’s a pity to leave. Why United Russia follows the primaries for the gubernatorial elections / 08 June 2022 | Yekaterinburg, News of the day 08.06.22
“United Russia” in the Sverdlovsk region identified two participants in the primaries in the gubernatorial elections: Evgenia Kuyvasheva and Dmitry Zhukov. Voting of party members and revealing the winner of the meeting on June 14 at the party conference, although the result has long been known to everyone. “New Day” was asked by political scientist Sergei Moshkin why United Russia needs symbolic primaries at all.
“The primaries, or pre-election within the party, was written with prediction models many years ago. But this procedure only works under conditions of an honest test of the winner. Whoever accepted – he goes to the polls. United Russia switched to this model in order to show itself as a democratic party side. Like, we opened it, we made decisions not behind the scenes, relying on the freedom of voters and electoral parties. But from the very first year of use, the primaries model in United Russia began to fail. Sometimes the wrong candidate won, and he was persuaded to choose preferences from the nomination. In the Sverdlovsk region, there was a bright story with actress Yulia Mikhalkova, who took a high place in the primaries for nomination to the State Duma, but she was persuaded to withdraw.
Over time, United Russia has complicated the calculation of the primaries in order to reduce costs. Four voting models have emerged, from party electors to counting wards that go to the polls. And now the party is in a strange situation. On the one hand, the primaries are an absolute imitation, a way to legalize a long-standing cabinet decision. Who goes to the gubernatorial elections, has long been not a party, the presidential administration. On the other hand, United Russia cannot prefer this procedure, otherwise it will be considered not as democratic as before. Moreover, the model of intra-party voting is used by other parties. For example, before the cases of elections to the State Duma, the primaries were held by the New People. In fact, United Russia was trapped. Everyone is burdened by this procedure, but preference does not come from it, ”said Sergey Moshkin.
Let’s add that on September 11, elections will be held in 50 more territories of the Sverdlovsk region, where new councils will be elected. The largest campaigns are celebrated in Nizhny Tagil, Pervouralsk, Novouralsk, Serov, Sysert and Asbest – there, United Russia also announced primaries in which electors are involved.
Yekaterinburg, Valentina Yaroslavtseva
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