United Russia will do without a governor in the autumn elections to the Legislative Assembly of Transbaikalia
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The delegates of the regional conference of “United Russia” (ER) approved on June 30 the list of candidates for the autumn elections to the Legislative Assembly of Transbaikalia. Governor Alexander Osipov, unlike most other heads of elected regions, was not included in the list. A Kommersant source in the regional branch of EP explained that Mr. Osipov is non-partisan and is not included in the governing bodies of the cell, so there is “nothing surprising” in his absence from the party list – it was the same in the elections to the State Duma-2021. The governor’s press service was unable to promptly provide a comment.
Instead of the head of the region, United Russia will be led to the polls by Senator Bair Zhamsuev, State Duma deputy from Transbaikalia Andrei Gurulev and deputy chairman of the regional government Inna Shcheglova. At the same time, all three, as it is believed in the region, will give up their deputy mandates after the elections: Messrs. Zhamsuev and Gurulev will remain in the federal parliament, and Ms. Shcheglova is expected to take the post of city manager of Chita.
Thus, the former city manager of Chita Alexander Sapozhnikov, who took fourth place in the head part of the party list, is guaranteed to be able to become a deputy. In November 2022, he left his post, volunteering for a special operation zone, in April 2023 he returned to the region, and in May he took part in the United Russia preliminary vote. However, according to the results of the primaries, Mr. Sapozhnikov won only 172 electoral votes, losing to the deputy of the Chita City Duma, the general director of JSC Vodokanal, Andrey Yadrishchensky (473 votes).
In the regional branch, the decision to include the former city manager in the head of the party list, despite the primaries he lost, is not officially commented on. A Kommersant source close to EP points to “certain obligations associated, in particular, with the promotion of Sapozhnikov’s figure as a member of the SVO” and “the shortage of recognizable faces in the regional department.” And Sergey Perminov, Deputy Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia, explained to Kommersant that the conference was “right to make a decision based on considerations of maximum efficiency of the list being put forward, the multitasking of the campaign.”
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