All parties, except for the “United Russia”, ignored the elections in Primorye and Buryatia
In Buryatia and the Primorsky Territory, municipal elections were held, in which only representatives of the “United Russia” showed interest from the parties. Experts believe that other parties did not participate in the campaign due to the fact that work in the field implies great responsibility, “and the results of the work are not always visible and not immediately.” Self-nominated candidates and United Russia divided the mandates approximately equally. Experts of the Independent Public Monitoring spoke in more detail about the results of monitoring campaigns.
In Buryatia, elections were held for deputies of the villages of Barguzinskoye and Turan, as well as the Severomuisky urban settlement.
“According to the results of the municipal elections, 45 percent of the mandates were received by representatives of the United Russia party, the rest of the mandates were distributed among self-nominated candidates,” said Tatyana Dumnova, First Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber of Buryatia.
Of the 25 candidates, 17 people will receive mandates, of of which 11 candidates are self-nominated.
According to Dumnova, the composition of the candidates testifies to the low activity of other parties in the municipal elections in Buryatia and to the fact that they have exhausted their resources in the last elections to the State Duma.
“The interest of representatives of political forces to participate in elections of this magnitude low, because the responsibility is quite large, and the results from the work are not always and not immediately visible, “the expert believes.
In the Primorsky Territory, additional elections of deputies of the municipal committee of the Runovsky rural settlement were held, three candidates took part in them from the United Russia party and two self-nominated candidates.
“The total turnout was 18.79 percent of voters. Three candidates from United Russia won and one self-nominated candidate, ”said Valentin Labonin, a member of the Public Chamber of the Primorsky Territory. , he noted.
Early voting also took place without violations, less than 20 people took part in it. Boris Stupnitsky, Chairman of the Public Chamber of the Primorsky Territory, spoke about this.