MOSCOW, Aug 26Observers record a small percentage of refusals to register candidates for the elections in September 2022, high competition and minor violations in the process of election campaigning that are not serious, representatives of public monitoring, who are actively preparing for a single voting day, told RIA Novosti. voting (EDG) will be held on September 11, 2022. Direct voting will elect 14 governors, deputies of six legislative assemblies and the City Duma of 12 administrative centers. In some regions, elections will be held for three days — from 9 to 11 September. For example, voting in Moscow at the elections of municipal deputies will be three days long. Competition and ViolationsEarlier, Ella Pamfilova, chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, said that the competition in the elections of governors would average five contenders per seat. In the elections to the legislative assemblies of six regions, competition in a single constituency averaged more than six parties per seat. As Alexander Brod, chairman of the Independent Public Monitoring Association, noted, this year the level of competition is high both in the elections of heads of regions and in the elections of legislative bodies In addition, the executive director of the association, Alena Bulgakova, emphasized that an unprecedentedly low percentage of refusals to register candidates is recorded by independent monitoring. «And this is confirmation that today the party-political landscape is built up, functions with mutual respect for each other friend of the participants in the electoral process,» she said. Alexander Zakuskin, co-chairman of the public movement «Russia Chooses», said that violations during the registration of candidates and in the process of campaigning are recorded. .jpg» />August 8, 18:08 In Russia, City Electoral Committee: over 6,000 candidates registered for elections in Moscow» Somewhere the campaigns are very «sluggish and quiet», somewhere they are not. Based on the results of the observation, we plan to systematize all violations and transfer them to the CEC with recommendations based on the results of the EDG «, — he noted. However, according to Brod, there are no serious problems during the period of campaigning, but election discrediters use the traditional method. «A number of materials in the media about the activities of running heads of subjects are presented as illegal campaigning. misleading uninitiated voters. Such materials in the media are not campaigning, this is the usual information about the current activities of an official, «he concluded. Pamfilova also spoke about attempts to discredit the elections at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. She noted that those who emigrated from Russia after the start of the special operation in Ukraine “dug in” in the Baltic republics and decided to launch “fake bubbles” about the electoral processes in the Russian Federation, but they could be dealt with. elections on a single voting day, public headquarters are actively cooperating with political parties to exchange experience and opinions, monitoring representatives said. Representatives of 16 Russian political parties and the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (PC RF) previously signed an agreement on cooperation and interaction in order to ensure observation voting day.» The Association «Independent Public Monitoring» is in close contact with public headquarters for election observation, which have been established in almost all regions. Pools of regional experts work in the regions — political scientists, sociologists, jurists, public opinion leaders who monitor all stages of the electoral process, including registration, campaigning of candidates,» Brod said. According to Bulgakova, the process of preparing observers for the elections begins from the very beginning of the electoral process at the sites of public headquarters operating in all regions of the Russian Federation.
August 19, 21:20In RussiaPutin: autumn elections will serve to develop the democratic system in the Russian Federation»The signing of an agreement with political parties is a continuation of the fruitful work that has been going on for several years, and, in fact, the biggest burden of responsibility falls on the shoulders of the regions — these are regional branches of political parties, public headquarters, and it is very important that they interact, and this agreement is really a working tool for the interaction of civil society institutions and systems of public chambers, and political parties,» she said. The public movement «Russia Chooses» in the upcoming UDG will focus mainly on campaigns at the municipal level, which somewhere coincide with the elections of governors or regional legislative bodies, Zakuskin shared. Yaroslavl region, Tambov region, Omsk region b, Primorye, and several other subjects, and Moscow, where we have an agreement with a number of independent candidates for municipal deputies, and we plan to deploy more than 100 observers in the capital,» he said. Now the movement is actively preparing regional headquarters and securing precinct election commissions, given the fact that in many places the elections will be held for three days, and one of them is a full-time working day for many, Zakuskin also said. .jpg» />07:40Women will make up a third of the candidates in the autumn elections in Russia
