“United Russia” nominated Oleg Kozhemyako as a candidate for governor of Primorye

The Primorsky branch of the United Russia party at its regional conference decided to nominate the incumbent governor Oleg Kozhemyako as a candidate for the post of head of the region for a new term. 180 conference delegates voted for him. For the speaker of the Duma of Vladivostok Andrey Brik – 6.

Earlier, the Primorsky regional branches of the parties “A Just Russia – For Truth”, “Communists of Russia” and the Cossack Party put forward their candidates. By message election commission of the region, documents on nomination to the commission have already been submitted by Alexander Andoni from the “Communists of Russia” and Denis Kovalev from the Cossack Party. Both nominees head the respective regional party organizations. “Fair Russia – For the Truth” put forward candidate for an entrepreneur from Vladivostok, director of a waste disposal company, Kirill Rudyuk.

June 10 plenum of the regional committee of the Communist Party He has made a decision not to nominate a candidate for the forthcoming elections in September for the governor of Primorye. The communists made such a demarche in protest against the mass exclusion of representatives from the party from the newly formed precinct election commissions. According to the regional committee, this creates conditions for falsification of the voting results.

In the upcoming elections in September will be able to accept participation only candidates from political parties. Legislative Assembly of Primorye amended the electoral code of the region, excluding the possibility of self-nomination. To be registered as a candidate, party nominees must overcome municipal filter – collect at least 75 signatures of deputies and heads of municipalities (with at least 51 signatures from deputies and heads of municipal districts, municipal districts and city districts).

Voting in the elections for the head of the Primorsky Territory will take place over three days – from 8 to 10 September.

Previously, Mr. Kozhemyako managed to work as the governor of three constituent entities of the Russian Federation – the Koryak Autonomous Okrug, the Amur and Sakhalin regions.

Recall, the previous elections of the head of Primorye in September 2018 were accompanied by a scandal. Then the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputy of the legislature of the region, Andrey Ishchenko, ran and entered the second round together with the acting head of the region, United Russia Andrey Tarasenko. On the decisive day of voting, the communist was in the lead after processing 95% of the ballots, but at the last moment the acting governor took the lead. The deputy announced falsifications and went on a hunger strike, and actions were held in Vladivostok in support of him.

How half of the current governors have already joined the election race – in the material “Kommersant” “Advanced advance”.

Alexey Chernyshev, Vladivostok