15:49 — REGNUM The institution of an acting governor participating in the election, combined with the requirement to pass the municipal filter, makes the election of the heads of subjects non-competitive, manageable, with a predictable result. This opinion was expressed to the correspondent by the co-chairman of the party "Russian All-People's Union" (ROS) Evgeny Artyukh.
“There were no surprises in the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. As expected, Kuyvashev won the acting governor, however, as in all 16 regions, where elections of heads of regions took place last Sunday. In this regard, on the surface, there is an obvious conclusion that the interim institution, combined with the requirement to pass the municipal filter, actually makes the elections of the heads of subjects uncompetitive and manageable with a predictable result. , the politician said.
In his opinion, the appointment of an interim to the regions also allows, in fact, to elect any person, even not related to the region, as a governor, as happened in Sevastopol or Udmurtia. Evgeny Artyukh believes that such a practice may have certain negative consequences for the regions in the future, and also indicates that local personnel have no prospects for growth within the region.
“As for the municipal filter, its prohibitive nature is obvious. Moreover, I dare say that the municipal filter in its current form does not give a formal right to participate in elections to all registered political parties. Simply, if all parties from the register of the Ministry of Justice put forward their candidates in regional elections, and they have such a formal right, and it cannot be limited until the law is changed, then mathematically there is not enough number of municipal deputies to collect signatures in order to overcome the municipal filter » , the politician is convinced.
Yevgeny Artyukh believes that the peculiarity of the elections in the Sverdlovsk region was the actions of the authorities aimed at increasing the turnout, since the predetermined and sluggish campaign did not arouse interest among the inhabitants of the region. He believes that it was for this purpose that the so-called lottery was organized, the organizers of which say that it had nothing to do with the elections.
“At the same time, the lottery was actually held in the same premises as polling stations, and only those who voted and received a sheet of gratitude from the members of the election commission could take part in it. This technology is questionable, since the electoral law prohibits holding lotteries in connection with elections. Moreover, the question arises: who and why paid for all this, and in the Sverdlovsk region at least 100 million rubles were spent on the lottery. And how will these sponsors then return this money to themselves? I see elements of corruption in this and I believe that the Sverdlovsk lottery should be carefully checked by law enforcement agencies. , the politician said.
Yevgeny Artyukh is convinced that the lottery is connected with the turnout, the analysis of which shows that in cities with lotteries the turnout was higher than in Yekaterinburg, which showed turnout twice as low as the regional average. He believes that in this regard, if not a legal, then a moral aspect of the legitimacy of the elected governor arises.
At least 100 million rubles, according to media reports, was spent by the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry on holding a lottery on the day of the gubernatorial election. Recall that the drawing of cash prizes for tickets, which were issued along with ballots, was held in 20 municipalities. There were played 14 apartments and 65 cars.
14 apartments, 65 cars, about 5,000 household appliances and 700,000 souvenirs were raffled off during a lottery in the Sverdlovsk region, timed to coincide with the gubernatorial election, Znak.com reports. At the same time, the organizer of the lottery, the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry, prepared 15 apartments, 130 cars and 10,000 household appliances for the lottery in 20 municipalities. It was not possible to play all the prizes due to the turnout, which, although it increased significantly, was still lower than expected.
Recall that the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region was won by the acting head of the region Evgeny Kuyvashev with 62% of the vote. At the same time, the overall turnout in the region was 37.33%, exceeding expectations. And in the municipalities where the lottery was held, it basically exceeded the mark of 40 and 50%.
The amount that the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry spent on holding the draw is not reported. According to media reports, we are talking about at least 100 million rubles.
How to dispose of the remaining cars, apartment and household appliances, the organizers of the lottery have not yet decided. One of the curators of the draw, former deputy of the regional legislature Nafik Famiyev, said that one more event might be organized, where all the other prizes would be drawn.
Let us add that earlier complaints about the holding of the lottery on election day were expressed by the chairman of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, who saw this as a possible attempt to bribe voters. Having dealt with the situation, the electoral commission did not find any violations in it. It should be noted that the organizers of the lottery did not call for voting for specific candidates and, in general, publicly distanced themselves from the elections in every possible way. Nevertheless, the centers for issuing gifts were located in close proximity to the PECs, and only citizens who came to the polls could receive lottery tickets - they were issued along with ballots.
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The organizers of the Sverdlovsk pre-election "lottery" are looking for a legal way to conduct it
The Ural Gems Foundation, which organizes the festival of the same name in the Sverdlovsk region, has decided on the list of prizes that will be drawn on September 10, the day of the governor's election. But how the draw will take place, the organizers have not yet figured out. And the advertising of the event, which should increase the turnout in the elections, is not very active in the region yet. Experts believe that the festival does not need active PR, because its official mission is to cover up the campaign to increase turnout in the elections.
The action, which the organizers used to call a prize draw (and by no means a lottery), is now officially called "awarding the winners." How exactly this award will be organized technologically is still unknown. According to the representative of the festival, the technology is still being finalized. Apparently, the organizers are looking for the most legal form of giving valuable gifts to residents, since the law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation” states that “during the election campaign, referendum campaign, lotteries and other games based on risk, in which the winning of prizes or participation in the drawing of prizes depends on the results of a vote, the results of an election, a referendum, or which are otherwise related to an election, a referendum.” According to the site's source, everything will be organized in accordance with the law, since the elections are not formally connected with the festival.
It is known that in any way only residents of those 20 municipalities that participate in the festival will be able to take part in the action and, in theory, win an apartment or a car, it takes place in Aramil, Artemovsky, Asbest, Berezovsky, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Verkhnyaya Salda, Irbit, Kamensk -Uralsky, Kachkanar, Krasnoturinsk, Lesnoy, Nevyansk, Nizhny Tagil, Novouralsk, Pervouralsk, Polevskoy, Revda, Rare, Sysert and Serov. Residents of Yekaterinburg, for example, will not be able to travel to a neighboring city to participate in the action.
It is not yet known exactly how much money went into the fund to buy prizes - the organizers say they cannot give an exact figure, because the funds continue to flow into the fund. Earlier, the sources of the site reported that the purchase of prizes and the organization of the event would cost 100 million rubles. Elena Streletskaya, a member of the festival's coordinating council for public relations, told the site that the list of gifts will include 15 apartments, 130 Lada Grant cars in black and white as standard, as well as 710,000 valuable gifts and souvenirs, including household goods. appliances such as vacuum cleaners and microwaves.
On the official website of the Ural Gems, the network of household appliances stores Nord, the network of car dealerships and technology centers Avtovek, the client advertising agency Handwriting of the Master, and several regional publications are listed as partners. Avtovek is the official dealer of Lada cars in Yekaterinburg. The cost of the cheapest Lada Grant on the company's website is 330 thousand rubles, so 130 cars will cost 42.9 million rubles. In the cities where the festival takes place, inexpensive one-room apartments on the website of the Ural Chamber of Real Estate cost from 450 thousand rubles (Dir) to 1.3 million rubles (Nizhny Tagil). It can be assumed that 15 apartments will cost about 15 million rubles (with a margin) .. rubles apiece. Equipment will probably be purchased in Nord stores, their branches are in most cities of the region.
As the site wrote earlier, the goal of the entire Ural Gems festival, as well as a large prize fund, is to increase turnout in the elections for the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. At the same time, the festival is not actively advertised yet. The organizers only placed a few dozen banners around the region informing about the Ural Gems.
In the near future, the fund is going to issue a circulation of the newspaper in Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky and other territories. They will tell in detail about the action, about where you can come for prizes, where the award centers will be located. There is one 15-second video on the Ural Gems YouTube page that talks about the prize fund of the festival. It looks like an ad that will be used either on YouTube before videos for a targeted audience, or on television. So far, the organizers cannot say where this video will be played.
The main work of the Ural Gems is holding events in cities. Almost every day, the social networks of the festival publish reports about folk festivals, concerts and other events for local residents. In Nevyansk, for example, the Day of the Nevyansk Tower was held, in Novouralsk - an exhibition of flowers and achievements of retired gardeners, at which there was a speech by the deputy head of the city and a concert "Melodies of Summer", in Revda - a sports festival, in Sysert - a review of folk talents. Starting this week, at such events, residents will be told about the action on September 10th.
According to political technologist Aleksey Schweigert, the festival is just a form to cover up the “vote mobilization operation”, and such political techniques do not need special advertising. “It is important how effective the work on advertising the turnout at the polling stations will be carried out, how it will be possible to convince people to come to vote. This will not only be a motivation to go to the polls in order to win a prize, other tools will be imposed on it, for example, a binding. It is important how motivators work locally, for example, whether there will be tear-off coupons from the draw that will have to be presented at the enterprise,” the expert says. So far, according to him, in the Sverdlovsk region, the technology with reporting on lottery tickets, collected phones or addresses is not going to be used, which, according to Schweigert, is rather bad for the festival. “Voters can understand that this is a weak tool, and if they don’t see control, they won’t come to the polls. Or the wrong target audience is being mobilized,” says Schweigert.
As the site knows, the action with the drawing of prizes was supported at the federal level, despite the remarks of the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, that the organizers need to be as careful as possible. So far, the only political incident with the Ural Gems has taken place in Sysert: a tea party with pensioners was held in a local cafe, United Russia candidates Sergei Konovalov and self-nominated Ilya Tugbaev took part in it. Communist MP Mikhail Keselman called the police, as he considered the ongoing tea party to be bribing voters. When the outfit arrived, festival officials said they invited the candidates because they like them, local communist MP Mikhail Keselman told the site. A protocol was drawn up under Article 5.10. Administrative Code "Conducting pre-election campaigning, campaigning on referendum issues outside the campaign period and in places where its conduct is prohibited by the legislation on elections and referendums."
A member of the organizing committee of the festival, Elena Streletskaya, said that she was not aware of this situation, but stated that there could be no complaints about the festival, since this was a non-political action. “The festival is not connected with the election campaign and with any of the candidates, we abstract from it as much as possible. Maybe the candidates themselves tried to use the festival site. I do not exclude the desire of deputies to promote themselves. We have everything within the law,” said the representative of the festival.
The official goal of the event is “to give talented people the opportunity to prove themselves, to acquaint fellow countrymen with their creative and sporting achievements.” The organizing committee emphasizes that the festival will not end on September 10, but will continue until October 10. After the selection, the fund will not be disbanded, but will be engaged in other projects.
“The fund was established by the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The festival is the first and most significant action that the Foundation and UTTP hold. After its completion, we will select and support other projects that people need. I think it's great when business is engaged in such initiatives,” said Elena Streletskaya.
Free lottery for voters in the Urals. The prize drawing will be held on September 10, the single day of voting. According to experts, there is a violation of the electoral law
The organizers of the Ural Gems festival were suspected of bribing voters. During the festival, the final day of which will coincide with the single day of voting, on September 10, when the governor of the Sverdlovsk region will be elected, numerous valuable prizes will be raffled off. Moreover, the lottery for participants will be free. CEC representative Ella Pamfilova has already promised to look into this situation.
Officially, the lottery is pure charity. Her task is to improve the mood of the inhabitants. And this is done at the expense of business, says Maria Plyusnina, a correspondent for the Yekaterinburg online newspaper Znak.com.
Maria Plyusnina
Correspondent of the Yekaterinburg online newspaper Znak.com
“The Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry has established an appropriate charitable foundation. Officially, of course, they do not say that this was done to increase turnout. Well, it's such a holiday for the whole region. This lottery was invented in order to increase the turnout in elections. It seems to me that this is due to the fact that the gubernatorial campaign is not very competitive. And interest in the elections on the part of voters is not too high. It will cover all major cities: Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky, Pervouralsk, but it will not be held in Yekaterinburg. They say that in Yekaterinburg there is no task to increase turnout, because it is unpredictable how the city will vote. Ekaterinburg traditionally has the largest number of election observers, and, accordingly, they may see this as a violation, which is disadvantageous for the authorities.”
There is no doubt that there is a violation of the electoral law here. But it is not certain that the CEC will be able to defend this point of view, says Arkady Lyubarev, a member of the working group of the Presidential Council on Citizens' Electoral Rights.
Arkady Lyubarev
member of the working group of the presidential council on the electoral rights of citizens
“Initially, this was done against covert bribery, when people bet on a certain candidate and, accordingly, they are thereby stimulated to vote for this candidate. Therefore, when a lottery is done to increase turnout, it has become generally accepted that it is not prohibited by law, although the law is interpreted more broadly. That is, no lotteries related to elections should be held at all. Let's see how the CEC will react, because, indeed, this is a moot point.”
By a strange coincidence, the locations of the festival lottery prize draws, as a rule, coincide with the addresses of the polling stations. The URA.ru portal reports that the gift fund, which the Ural business has decided to create to raise the mood of fellow countrymen, will include at least ten apartments, 130 cars, tens of thousands of household appliances and hundreds of thousands of souvenirs.
Already next Sunday, September 10, the inhabitants of the Sverdlovsk region will elect a governor. This will be the first popular election of the head of the region in the last 14 years. Six people are vying for the chair of the region's leader. According to the election commission, a number of innovations are envisaged for this year's elections. 805 precinct and 12 territorial election commissions in the region will be equipped with video surveillance cameras and electronic voting boxes. Also, Sverdlovsk residents will be able to vote at the location within the region without absentee ballots. Everything that a voter needs to know about the elections of the Sverdlovsk governor this year is in the material of the Academy of Sciences "Mezhdu stroki".
Who do we choose?
We elect the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. This is the highest administrative elected person in the region, who leads the state executive authorities. He heads the regional government and his own administration, coordinates the work of law enforcement agencies, and has the right to dissolve the Legislative Assembly. In accordance with Art. 44 p. 1 of the Charter of the Sverdlovsk region, the governor determines the main directions of domestic policy, ensures the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, signs and promulgates regional laws.
The governor is elected by the inhabitants of the region for a term of five years and cannot hold the said position for more than two consecutive terms. For the first time in the Sverdlovsk region, the governor was elected in 1995. The first and so far the only head of the region elected by popular vote was Eduard Rossel, who won election campaigns three times - in 1995, 1999 and 2003. After him, Alexander Misharin and Yevgeny Kuyvashev became governors, but their candidacies had already been proposed by the president and were not submitted to a popular vote.
Who wants to take the governor's seat?
Everyone will have to choose from six candidates. These are State Duma deputy from the LDPR Igor Toroshchin, head of the regional branch of the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice Dmitry Sergin, deputy of the Legislative Assembly from A Just Russia Dmitry Ionin, managing director of PJSC Plus Bank Alexei Parfyonov from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputy of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg, nominated by the party " The Greens, Konstantin Kiselyov and Acting Head of the Region Evgeny Kuyvashev. A month before the expiration of the latter's term, in April 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted his resignation (the powers ended in May), but immediately signed a decree appointing him as acting head of the region. This was perceived by Ural political scientists and Kuyvashev's fellow party members as support for the Kremlin in the upcoming elections.
Only these six managed to collect the required number of signatures of municipal deputies and heads (from 126 to 132) to pass the so-called "municipal filter" and officially register as candidates for the post of Sverdlovsk governor.
Why do you need a municipal filter?
The municipal filter is formally designed to test candidates for their "seriousness" and ability to establish ties with deputies. In reality, the filter, according to the opposition parties, makes it impossible for those people who can seriously compete with the nominee from the party in power to participate in the elections. Now there are 1,547 deputies in the dumas of various levels. Of these, United Russia has 948 deputies, Just Russia has 88, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has 71, the LDPR has 35, the RPPS has 10, and the rest are self-nominated.
No. Citizens of the Russian Federation who have reached the age of 18 and whose place of residence is located on the territory of the region can take part in voting in the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. Persons recognized as legally incompetent by a court or held in places of deprivation of liberty by a court verdict cannot vote. Employees of TECs recommend that you clarify in advance whether you are included in the list of voters and which polling station you belong to, so that on election day there will be no unpleasant misunderstandings for you.
My friend does not want to go to the polls, will he be punished?
“In 2013, at the election of the head, the turnout was 45%, in 2016, when deputies of the Legislative Assembly were elected, it was about the same level. Therefore, we hope that this year's turnout will be sufficient. There was a time when the people of Tagil were even less interested in the elections, the turnout was 35%, now it is becoming more active. Let's hope that the voters will come, despite the height of the gardening season,” said Lidia Bryzgalova, chairman of the Nizhny Tagil election commission.
How to find your polling place?
On the territory of Nizhny Tagil, 157 polling stations will operate from 8:00 to 20:00. You can find your address on the website of the election commission of the Sverdlovsk region.
On September 10, special groups of members of election commissions with ballot papers and a portable sealed ballot box will visit the seriously ill, elderly, people with disabilities.
What if I moved to another city?
Those who do not have time to decide on their location before September 5 can vote on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region according to a special or, as it is also called, branded application.
“Special applications will be issued from September 5 to September 9 at the PECs at the place of registration,” they say at the local election commission. - For example, they send someone on a business trip, he comes to his native PEC and writes a statement where he indicates the reasons for which he leaves the city, and also because of which he was previously unable to write an application for voting at the location. A part of a special stamp is stuck on the application, after which it is given to the voter. Before the elections, the regional electoral commission will publish a list of polling stations to which Ural residents can come with branded statements. In our Leninist Commission, for example, there will be seven such polling stations.”
People who have only a temporary residence permit on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region or have no registration at all will not be able to vote in the gubernatorial elections.
In the Sverdlovsk region, early voting in the gubernatorial elections will be organized only in hard-to-reach villages and hamlets. It will start on September 2 and end on September 9. Voting will be in 24 settlements: in Artinsky, Volchansky, Gornouralsky, Ivdelsky, Serovsky, Sosvinsky, Tavdinsky, Tugulymsky, Turinsky and Shali urban districts, Baikalovsky and Taborinsky municipal districts, Alapaevsky municipality, urban districts of Verkhotursky and Karpinsk.
How many ballots will I be given at the polling station?
For the election of the Sverdlovsk governor, one ballot will be issued, which will indicate the full name and brief information about all six candidates. The procedure for placing information about them in the bulletin was determined by the election committee in early August. The first line was taken by Social Revolutionary Dmitry Ionin, the last - by Liberal Democrat Igor Toroshchin.
News agency "Between the Lines"