Yaroslavl authorities postponed the battle for Pereslavl
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The City Duma of Pereslavl-Zalessky (Yaroslavl region) on Thursday unexpectedly refused to appoint a second competition for the position of mayor, which was previously scheduled for the end of October. According to the results of the first competition, the oppositionist Rashid Talybov did not have enough votes to win over the support of the regional authorities and. about. Mayor Alexander Tarasenkov. This time, Mr. Tarasenkov himself suggested removing the issue of the competition from the agenda “and returning to it later.” A new selection of candidates for mayor will be appointed by the next City Duma after the 2023 elections. A Kommersant source in the regional government explained this decision by saying that “now is not the time for political squabbles.”
His proposal to exclude from the agenda of the meeting of the City Duma the issue of appointing a competition for the position of Mayor of Pereslavl-Zalessky and. about. Mayor Alexander Tarasenkov explained several reasons at once. “The issues of mobilization that we have today in the city district, it is necessary to start the heating period correctly, prepare for the winter in terms of cleaning the city, complete work in the yards, along the beach (on Lake Pleshcheyevo.— “b”), on road activities and so on. I have a proposal from today’s meeting this issue (about the competition for the position of mayor.— “b”) to remove and return to it later,” the official said.
When asked by the deputies whether the decision of the City Duma not to announce a new competition would be a violation of the law (in accordance with the federal law on local self-government, the new head of the municipality must be appointed no later than six months from the date of the resignation of his predecessor, and this period expires at the end of October) , Mr. Tarasenkov answered in the negative, referring to the opinion of lawyers. “The task of the thought is to announce a competition, you have already announced a competition. The competition did not take place, that is, by and large, there is no responsibility today, ”concluded and. about. mayor. United Russia has exactly half of the mandates in the Pereslavl-Zalessky City Duma. But representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party and independent deputy Mikhail Mulenkov also voted for the decision to remove the issue of appointing the competition from the agenda, in addition to United Russia, the leader of the Just Russia – For Truth (SRZP) faction in the Yaroslavl Regional Duma Sergei Khabibulin told Kommersant (his party members refused to competition was not supported). “These deputies actually decided to break the law,” Mr. Khabibulin stressed. It is assumed that the new competition will now be appointed by deputies of the next convocation of the City Duma, which will be elected in September 2023.
Recall that the deputy of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma from the “United Russia” Alexander Tarasenkov became acting. about. mayor of Pereslavl-Zalessky in April 2022, after the previous mayor Irina Strokinova was appointed assistant to the acting head of the Yaroslavl region Mikhail Evraev. The latter personally represented Mr. Tarasenkov to the Pereslavl deputies and the public. However, in the city and about. the mayor is considered a stranger: although he is a native of the Yaroslavl region, he had nothing to do with Pereslavl until last spring.
According to the results of the first competition for the position of mayor, which took place in July, Alexander Tarasenkov took only second place in both rounds of voting. But the winner, the former vice-mayor of Pereslavl-Zalessky Rashid Talybov, lacked a few votes to head the city. The second competition was scheduled for October 26.
Alexander Tarasenkov did not answer the call of Kommersant. A Kommersant source in the government of the Yaroslavl region explained the refusal of the competition by the fact that “now is not the time for political squabbles.” At the same time, Kommersant’s source in the region’s authorities is confident that with this decision, the domestic political bloc of the regional government “lay a mine for next year.”
This is far from the first time that a Russian city has been left without a full-fledged leader for a long period. For example, for almost four years after the arrest of oppositionist Yevgeny Urlashov in July 2013, Yaroslavl was led by acting mayor, and the city acquired a legitimate mayor in the person of the former head of Khimki Vladimir Sleptsov only on March 1, 2017. And in Tambov, the leader of the local “Motherland” Maxim Kosenkov, who headed the city administration on February 1, 2022, had previously had the status of acting president for a year and a half. about. mayor: due to a criminal record, he could not participate in the elections and became a full-fledged head of the city only after returning to the post of city manager.
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