United Russia insisted on their own – Picture of the Day – Kommersant
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As it became known to Kommersant, the former leader of the United Russia (ER) faction Vitaly Nazarenko will become the representative of the new parliament of North Ossetia in the Federation Council. On Thursday, his candidacy will be put to the vote by the United Russia faction, which received 51 mandates out of 70 in the new convocation. Arsen Fadzaev, the current senator from the Just Russia – For Truth (SRZP) party, has already announced that he will go over to the “tough opposition” to United Russia.
A few days ago, Vitaly Nazarenko was not considered as a candidate for senators. According to Kommersant, United Russia Alexander Totoonov, who sat in the Federation Council in 2012-2017, was a likely contender for this post. After the previous elections to the parliament of North Ossetia, he gave way in the upper house to the leader of the republican branch of the “Patriots of Russia” and former State Duma deputy Arsen Fadzaev, who now, heading a branch of the already united SRZP party, expected to prolong his powers.
Kommersant’s interlocutors in the republican government assessed the chances of both politicians as high, noting that Mr. Totoonov’s lobbying capabilities are slightly higher – due to supposedly friendly relations with the speaker of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko. However, on September 22, according to Kommersant’s information, United Russia will put to the vote the candidacy of Vitaly Nazarenko as a compromise figure, and Alexander Totoonov will probably become the speaker of parliament. Earlier, the “locomotives” of the United Russia list, State Duma deputy Zurab Makiyev and big businessman Vladimir Guriev, announced the refusal of deputy mandates and, accordingly, claims to the senator’s chair.
Kommersant’s interlocutors could not explain the reason for the “castling” of United Russia, suggesting that there had been some kind of “misunderstanding”. The secretary of the North Ossetian cell of the EP and the head of the republic, Sergei Menyailo, told Kommersant that he would not anticipate the results of the vote, but the Socialist-Revolutionary could not count on maintaining the senatorial mandate. “The senator should be a representative of the party that received the majority of votes,” Mr. Menyailo explained.
Only three parties got into the new convocation of the parliament: ER (51 mandates), SRZP (10) and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (9). And if United Russia and the Communists improved their results compared to the elections five years ago, having received five and four more mandates, respectively, then the party of Arsen Fadzaev seriously worsened theirs. In 2017, only his “Patriots”, apart from the Social Revolutionaries, took 12 mandates, and then 7 more went directly to A Just Russia.
“Now we are going into tough opposition,” Mr. Fadzayev told Kommersant, promising that he and nine of his fellow party members would boycott the first meeting of the new parliament. Kommersant’s interlocutor in the government of North Ossetia replied that “Fadzaev and his faction can do anything, we have a free country.”
It is interesting that this is already the second senatorial post, for which, according to the results of the 2022 elections, representatives of the SRHR fought and which, as a result, went to a more compromise figure. As Kommersant previously reported, in the Yaroslavl region, the Social Revolutionaries expected that in exchange for the non-participation of the party in the elections, the new governor Mikhail Evraev would appoint its representative to the Federation Council – State Duma deputy Nikolai Burlyaev. Viktor Kostin, chief federal inspector for Moscow, was considered another likely candidate. But in the end, the chair in the upper chamber went to the rector of Yaroslavl State University, Alexander Rusakov.
According to political scientist Rostislav Turovsky, in both cases, the Social Revolutionaries did not have enough help from the federal center to turn the situation in their favor. “The interests of the regional elites came to the fore. This logically led to Evraev’s decision. From the point of view of a political compromise, Fadzaev had more chances, but in the case of North Ossetia, it did not take place either.” The expert recalls that the nomination of Alexander Totoonov was accompanied by a scandal, since he lost the EP primaries. “From this point of view, the choice of Nazarenko can be viewed as a kind of compromise, as a decision in favor of a politically lightweight figure,” he concluded.
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