Vladislav Davankov looks forward to cooperation with Boris Nadezhdin
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Presidential candidate from the New People party Vladislav Davankov on Friday promised to present his program by February 15. It will include theses that are close in spirit to New People, but prepared by other politicians who were not on the ballot, including Boris Nadezhdin. Vladislav Davankov wants to meet with him in the coming week. According to Kommersant’s information, Mr. Nadezhdin may hold negotiations on cooperation with “New People” and not only as part of the preparation of their program. The politician himself neither confirms nor denies this fact.
On February 9, Vladislav Davankov revealed the details of his program regarding the economic bloc in order, in his own words, to emphasize the real “financial security” of all the stated points. “We can promise a lot, but the budget is in deficit, that’s why our committees (of headquarters— “Kommersant”) are preparing proposals on where to find money,” the politician explained.
Among the most specific proposals, the candidate cited long-tested theses by liberal politicians about optimizing the work of the state apparatus. “First of all, we are talking about the efficiency of spending funds by the state,” declared Mr. Davankov, noting the role of the Accounts Chamber in this matter, as well as the possibility of reducing or “transferring to the real economy” a number of civil servants through the introduction of artificial intelligence.
Vladislav Davankov intends to present the final program on February 15. He previously promised to do this on February 1. The politician explained the delay to Kommersant by his desire to take into account proposals from the regions in the document, as well as provisions prepared by politicians who had not registered as candidates for the presidential elections. Among the latter, Mr. Davankov mentioned self-nominated Anatoly Batashev and Boris Nadezhdin, nominated from the “Civil Initiative”.
“Yes, I found out that Boris Nadezhdin, to my great regret, was not registered. I have said more than once that I am for political competition, where everyone could convey their position,” Mr. Davankov told Kommersant, adding that the politician is trying to achieve registration through the Supreme Court.
Vladislav Davankov emphasized that his positions with Boris Nadezhdin “do not agree on everything,” but did not rule out the possibility of political cooperation: “We have known each other for quite a long time, and I think that this week in Moscow we will discuss with him which blocks of his program can be include in mine – that’s why we also moved the presentation date to February 15.”
Vladislav Davankov has already included “several blocks” from Anatoly Batashev in his program: “It is important for me that all the ideas of the candidates that are close to me are reflected in my program.”
A Kommersant source close to the presidential administration (AP) claims that Mr. Nadezhdin has already approached “New People” with a proposal for cooperation in future elections to the Moscow City Duma (to be held in September this year) in exchange for support in the State Duma elections in 2026. The AP expects Mr. Nadezhdin to continue to act legally, says another source close to this department. “If he goes to court and does not call for rallies, then he can count on a prize,” says Kommersant’s interlocutor. Answering questions from Kommersant about whether Mr. Nadezhdin offered cooperation to New People and whether he would support Mr. Davankov in the elections, the politician himself replied: “We think so. I can’t say for sure right now.” According to Mr. Nadezhdin, he has not yet communicated with representatives of the Administration: “I won’t ask myself, I’m ready for dialogue within the framework of the law with everyone.”
The head of the Civil Society Development Foundation, Konstantin Kostin, notes that “there are no serious ideological and typological differences between Boris Nadezhdin and the New People party.” But in the presidential elections, Vladislav Davankov may receive only a “small part”, a few percent, from the electorate who were ready to vote for Mr. Nadezhdin earlier. “They are unlikely to allow the New People candidate to seriously challenge for second place. Boris Nadezhdin built the image of a supra-party anti-war candidate. About 20% of our citizens do not support SVO. And Vladislav Davankov is a candidate of the urban middle class. These two electoral niches overlap, but do not coincide. The former’s elimination from the race, rather, returns to the “New People” part of the electorate that went over to Boris Nadezhdin. This, by the way, is true for all opposition parties,” explains the political scientist.
The volume of the possible “flow of votes” from Boris Nadezhdin to Vladislav Davankov depends on whether Mr. Nadezhdin himself will call supporters to the alliance, and on the position of a number of public opinion leaders, says political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov. “There are prospects for cooperation because the candidates are ideologically and electorally close to each other,” he agrees. Boris Nadezhdin “could well compete” for elected positions as part of the “New People”, and the party members themselves would get a politician who became a “rock star,” Mr. Grashchenkov believes.
The head of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, Mikhail Vinogradov, thinks that the majority of Boris Nadezhdin’s voters will lose interest in the elections, but someone “will watch by inertia.” If this asset is important, then it is important for Vladislav Davankov’s headquarters to maintain the feeling or illusion of common values with Nadezhdin, the political scientist believes.
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