Gennady Zyuganov’s grandson Leonid presented the election program and promised to return Moscow to Muscovites

Candidate for mayor of Moscow, Moscow City Duma deputy Leonid Zyuganov presented his election program on Thursday. Its basic provisions were the reindustrialization of Moscow, the restriction of residential commercial development and the reorientation of the city budget for social needs. The politician assured that he was acting independently, but nevertheless admitted that he did not hesitate to consult with his eminent grandfather, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov.

For the presentation of the election program, Leonid Zyuganov gathered his supporters on the evening of August 10 at the Illusion cinema on Kotelnicheskaya embankment. Together with the activists, his comrades in the faction in the Moscow City Duma and, of course, his grandfather, the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, came to support the candidate for mayor.

The claimed “digital presentation” was preceded by a video interview with the candidate, which turned out to be unexpectedly candid. Starting with policy statements, by the end of the video, Leonid Zyuganov moved on to a personal one: “I would be a fool if I didn’t ask for advice from Gennady Andreevich, my grandfather, who has been in politics for fifty years.” The deputy admitted that he was the first to acquaint the eminent ancestor with his ideas, although the grandfather, as it turned out, did not disdain the opinion of his grandson: “Sometimes, without joking, I will say, and he can call me and consult in Moscow:“ They gave me the data, what can you say about them? ” A variety of questions. But more often, of course, I call him.

“Is it difficult in politics with your last name?” the interviewer asked sympathetically. “There are pluses in everything, there are minuses in everything,” the protagonist of the evening remarked philosophically. did, did not work anywhere. However, Leonid Zyuganov assured that when citizens begin to communicate with him live, they “immediately change this opinion.”

As proof of the validity of this changed opinion in the right direction, the deputy said that he had always been nominated for elections honestly, “without any lists”, and held about 500 meetings with voters during various campaigns. “The reaction to my name was always positive,” Mr. Zyuganov assured. “Moreover, I can say that we often took advantage of this moment. They told people: “Zyuganov will come to your yard!” But they didn’t say which one. This simple deception, of course, had to be exposed later, but people reacted favorably and with interest, the deputy emphasized.

From conversations about the legendary grandfather, the filmmakers almost switched to a discussion of God, but then the show stopped, and the mayoral candidate went on stage to present the program itself, while promising to keep within exactly 900 seconds.

The clock on the screen lit up, and the deputy began to pace under them and call different numbers related to certain details of his plan. The first digits – 35 and 8 – meant the age of the politician and the number of years he worked in the status of a deputy of the Moscow City Duma (and at the same time the number of grandchildren of “rock star, political legend Gennady Zyuganov” could not resist again from the personal candidate). The next number was the symbol of infinity: “that unreal number that the Moscow mayor’s office is guided by when it carries out endless compaction development,” Mr. Zyuganov Jr. explained, thus presenting the key points of his program – “a moratorium on commercial development” and “balancing the construction of social facilities “.

This was followed by 12 – “a reasonable number of floors for our metropolis” and 0 – “that’s how many public hearings over the past few years have taken place in a normal, lively format.” “Muscovites are not heard, and this is one of the biggest problems,” the communist bravely stood up for ordinary citizens. After that, the theses traditional for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation about the bright Soviet past finally sounded in the legendary Soviet cinema: “In the 1970s and 1980s, 3.5 million people worked in Moscow, 1.8 million in the manufacturing sector – every second! In 2023, out of 7.3 million employees, only 750 thousand are employed in the manufacturing sector – only 1 out of 10!” The current capital, devoid of a number of enterprises and filled with “endless shopping centers and offices,” is far from the “power of Soviet Moscow in 1980,” Mr. Zyuganov Jr., who was born in 1988, proclaimed almost grandfatherically. Therefore, his program provides for another moratorium – on the re-profiling of industrial areas of the capital.

Finally, the final numbers of the presentation were 4.1 trillion (Moscow’s budget, which, according to the communist, should be reoriented to social needs) and 2023. Leonid Zyuganov summed up without much hope.

Grigory Leiba