Yaroslavl anti-mayor anomaly – Newspaper Kommersant No. 212 (7413) of 11/16/2022
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Elections of the mayor of Rostov (Yaroslavl region) ended on Tuesday with an unexpected victory of the opponent of the incumbent mayor. Although Andrei Los, who has headed the city administration since 2017, according to him, was supported by Governor Mikhail Evraev and United Russia (ER), he received only five votes in the City Duma, and 14 deputies voted for ex-official Sergei Tikhomirov. A Kommersant source in the regional authorities explained this result by the fact that Mr. Los “tired everyone.” This is the second recent case of deputies refusing to vote for the incumbent mayor in the Yaroslavl region: the first happened in the summer in Pereslavl-Zalessky.
The mayor of Rostov, Andrey Los, on November 15, could not be re-elected for a second term. According to the results of voting in the municipal council, he was supported by only five deputies (four United Russia members and one communist). The official admitted to Kommersant that the decision of the City Duma came as a surprise to him. “I was supported by the governor and United Russia, why this happened, I still do not understand,” he said. Sergei Tikhomirov, who in the past headed the agency for the municipal order of housing and communal services of Yaroslavl, was elected the new mayor, 14 deputies voted for him (the majority are United Russia).
Konstantin Shevkoplyas, a member of the United Russia faction in the Rostov City Duma, told Kommersant that he also did not expect the victory of Sergei Tikhomirov. “Both United Russia and the governor support Andrei Vasilyevich’s candidacy. In this situation, I was surprised that EP did not show itself in any way. They did not convene either the political council or the faction before the meeting,” the deputy complained. The head of the United Russia faction in the City Duma, Olga Korobchenko, could not answer the question of Kommersant why Mr. Los was not elected, redirecting him to the speaker of the council, Svetlana Kichkova. Ms. Kichkova did not answer Kommersant’s calls.
A Kommersant source in the authorities of the Yaroslavl region said that Mr. Los “tired everyone.” “So much so that people were ready to elect anyone. Tikhomirov is known in the regional government. Considered him as one of the candidates, met with him. As a result, Andrei Los was told that they were not against his candidacy, but if he manages the city, let him make sure that he votes for him. But so that a cleaner or a random person does not become the mayor, (in the government.— “b”) did not protest against Sergei Tikhomirov. We voted for him – welcome. That is the will of the people,” the interlocutor explained.
Recall that in 2020 in the Kostroma region, the cleaning lady Marina Udgodskaya unexpectedly won the election of the head of the administration of the village of Povalikhino. She was considered a technical rival of the incumbent leader Nikolai Loktev (ER), but due to the protest vote, she gained 67.1%. The story received a wide response, the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, even reported on it to President Vladimir Putin. Mrs. Udgodskaya still heads the administration of Povalikhino.
Rostov is the second city in the Yaroslavl region where the mayoral elections bring an unexpected result. In July, the deputies of the City Duma of Pereslavl-Zalessky, in which United Russia members and oppositionists are equally divided, were unable to approve the governor-supported and. about. Mayor Alexander Tarasenkov. The latter continues to lead the city in the status and. o., despite the fact that all the deadlines for appointing a new competition for the position of mayor have already expired. Most likely, a full-fledged head of Pereslavl will be chosen by a new convocation of the City Duma, which will be elected in 2023.
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