Party nominees begin the presidential race with trips to the regions
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While some presidential candidates are engaged collection of voter signatures, the nominees of parliamentary parties are already starting full-fledged pre-election work. For example, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and New People and their candidates Nikolai Kharitonov and Vladislav Davankov planned launch events for the first post-holiday week. And the chairman of the LDPR, Leonid Slutsky, began his election tour even before the New Year holidays.
The first to go on an election voyage was the LDPR candidate, party chairman and head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky. On December 29, he arrived in Anadyr in the company of party members. In Chukotka, Mr. Slutsky, among other things, met with Governor Vladislav Kuznetsov and visited several social institutions. Later, during the New Year holidays, the liberal democrat visited the Krasnodar region, where he met with representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, social activists and tourists, as well as the Saratov region, where he listened to refugees from Kharkov, the DPR and LPR, as well as volunteers from the “sewing battalions” .
The LDPR press service told Kommersant that on January 10, Leonid Slutsky will visit the Stavropol region, then the Astrakhan region, and at the end of the month – most of the Far Eastern regions. Also in January, the party will hold in Moscow a “shoulder to shoulder forum for promoting the Northern Military District,” and the candidate himself will hold a “large-scale event with the participation of representatives of the Russian government, relevant ministries and departments” (the press service did not provide details). “The election program is formed from people’s proposals, from what is important to them,” party members explained the need for numerous meetings “on the ground,” adding that public headquarters have already been opened in all regions (their work is coordinated by the candidate personally). And on January 17, an “all-Russian LDPR poll” will begin, during which voters will be able to leave their proposals and orders: “This is the main format for collecting proposals for our program.” The reference points in the campaign, the party added, among other things, will be “levelling the level for a modern and comfortable life of Russians and self-sufficiency of the regions,” supporting small and medium-sized businesses and career prospects for young people, and the main slogan will be the phrase “Slutsky is always there.”
New People candidate and State Duma Deputy Speaker Vladislav Davankov will open his campaign with visits to Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. “I have always had a special relationship with the Urals: strong, free and self-sufficient people live here, to whom nothing can be imposed, therefore in these cities we have some of the strongest branches and many supporters,” Mr. Davankov explained to Kommersant the choice of location. The launch event in Chelyabinsk on January 11 will be combined with the announcement of a “program for training women in IT specialties.” Let us recall that Vladislav Davankov promoted the “million IT girls” project during the campaign for the Moscow mayoral elections, in which he also participated. This and other “progressive ideas” will form the basis of the election program, the candidate made it clear: “There are two important topics here: mastering the highly paid professions of the future and the self-realization of women, for whom some leaders do not recommend getting a higher education, but instead send them to cook borscht.”
By mid-January, New People intend to deploy over 40 public headquarters on the basis of the party infrastructure, and closer to March, representative offices will open in regions where the party is not yet represented, Mr. Davankov said. The candidate has already chosen a slogan for the campaign: “Yes to change!”
The head of the press service of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and State Duma deputy Alexander Yushchenko told Kommersant that a meeting of Nikolai Kharitonov’s election headquarters will be held on January 9. The plan for upcoming trips will be approved at this meeting. Presumably, the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will begin the campaign with trips to the Far East.
As for Vladimir Putin, who is participating in the elections as a self-nominated candidate, there is no public information on his campaign activities yet. Let us note that during his previous presidential campaign in 2018, the main emphasis was placed on Mr. Putin’s working trips as the current president, which were not formally campaign trips. It is quite difficult for the head of state to conduct purely campaigning events taking into account the requirements of election legislation due to the position he holds. In addition, “campaigning by work” creates in the eyes of voters the image of a president who continues to carry out his work duties during the election campaign.
At the end of last year, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin’s visits to the regions would begin shortly after the New Year holidays. At the same time, Mr. Peskov also did not separate the president’s pre-election and ordinary trips, noting that for the current head of state they are all “working in nature.” “How are they different from workers? Since he is the current head of state, he has them all as workers. Everything is within the working schedule. For the first days (2024— “Kommersant”) is not planned, but they will quickly begin and continue,” said Dmitry Peskov.
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