Only one candidate submitted documents for participation in the gubernatorial elections in Kuzbass
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The Central Election Commission (CEC) at a meeting on Wednesday reported on the interim results of the election campaigns of various levels that started in June. In total, elections will be held in September in 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, including in new territories that have already taken advantage of a special right and reduced the time for nominating candidates. In 21 regions, governors will be directly elected: according to the Central Election Commission, the most candidates were nominated for mayor of Moscow, and the most alarming situation is in Kuzbass, where on the evening of July 4 only one person brought documents to the commission, although the nomination there ends on July 9.
According to the Central Election Commission, in September there will be about 4,000 election campaigns of all levels in 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. There will be no elections only in four regions: Kabardino-Balkaria, Mari El, St. Petersburg and the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Of the 27 parties that have the right to participate in the elections, only 19 have nominated their candidates so far.
Campaigns at the federal level will be held in four regions, where State Duma deputies will be elected in vacant single-member districts. These are Karachay-Cherkessia, Crimea, Krasnoyarsk Territory and Lipetsk Region. According to CEC chairman Ella Pamfilova, only six parties have so far nominated their candidates for the Duma: the parliamentary United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia – For Truth, as well as two non-parliamentary ones – the Communists of Russia and Yabloko. The CEC has decided that voting in all these elections will last for three days.
The most large-scale campaign this year is the direct elections of the highest officials of the regions, they are planned in 21 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. According to Mrs. Pamfilova, a total of 116 candidates, including 10 self-nominated candidates, were nominated for this election. According to her, the average competition for the governor’s seat in 2023 will be five people per seat. But there are regions that stand out noticeably against the general background: these are Moscow, which Ella Pamfilova praised for the large number of nominees (there are already 12 of them), and the Kemerovo region, where, as of the evening of July 4, on the contrary, only one candidate (from the Liberal Democratic Party) was nominated .
In Moscow, the nomination of candidates for mayor ends on July 7, and there Ella Pamfilova expects “competitive, heated, emotional and tense” elections. “As for Kuzbass, the nomination period ends on July 9th. I hope we will not have to postpone the elections there, and candidates will still appear, and the elections will still be competitive,” said Ms. Pamfilova, not hiding her indignation. However, it seems that there will no longer be a need to postpone the elections: on July 5, news appeared on the website of the regional election commission that the documents were brought by the second candidate – from the Communist Party. In addition, the election committee is waiting for documents from the current governor Sergei Tsivilev, whom the local United Russia nominated for a new term at a conference on June 27.
Parliaments will be elected in 20 regions in September. According to the CEC, 1,643 candidates have already been nominated for these elections, including 53 self-nominated candidates.
Separately, the head of the CEC dwelled on the upcoming elections in the new territories. Recall that in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, regional parliaments and municipal deputies are to be elected. The heads of regions in these subjects will be approved by the newly elected parliaments. According to Ella Pamfilova, in all four regions, the nomination will begin only on July 24 and will last until mid-August. The CEC chair recalled that the law gives them the right to shorten any stage of the election campaign: “That was done, and we strongly recommended it.”
We also note that of the regions where governors will be elected in September, only the Omsk and Tyumen regions have refused a three-day vote: the elections there will last two days and one day, respectively. And among the subjects where parliaments will be elected, Bashkiria and Buryatia decided to do without the “three-day meeting”: there voting will be limited to one day, September 10th.
Finally, elections of heads and deputies of administrative centers will be held in 17 regions in autumn. For this level of elections, as of the evening of July 4, there were 146 candidates. “This year we are waiting for the campaign for the election of the mayor of Khabarovsk, this is very important, since we almost never have mayoral elections. I think that we will conduct a deep analysis on this matter,” said Ms. Pamfilova. At this level of elections, Ingushetia, the Sverdlovsk and Tyumen regions, and the Khabarovsk Territory have abandoned the three-day vote.
Having finished counting candidates, the Central Election Commission announced a new electronic service “Mobile PEC”. This is a mobile application for members of election commissions that will help inform voters and more rationally plan the work of precinct commissions on voting days, taking into account the preliminary requests of voters. The CEC clarified that members of the election commissions will be able to use the new application during door-to-door visits. In September 2023, the new service will be tested at all election levels in 75 regions. “In case of successful testing, the application will be fully used in the course of future election campaigns in all regions of Russia,” the Central Election Commission promised.
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