Somewhere hours after 16, it was announced that, as of 15 hours, turnout was on average in Russia - 8,5%. The polling stations opened in the morning at 08, therefore, over seven hours, these unfortunate eight and a half percent of the registered voters voted.Before the closure of the plots in 20, there were still five hours left, therefore, another six percent could have come at best. Which is approximately 14,5%. I looked at the turnout forecasts of the CEC. They also predict from 14 to 15%.
It is very small. This indicates that the voter for the most part "put on the elections" (popular expression).
True, Peter Tolstoy jumped out and reassured: “The current turnout in the subjects of the federation is completely normal for any democratic country. It can be compared with the indicators of regional elections in France, in Britain ... ".
Thank you, Peter Tolstoy, comforted. When there are more than two million prisoners in our country, we will be comforted by the fact that there are more than two million prisoners in democratic America.
After 20 hours I began to watch the broadcast from the CEC. There, in the center of the table, like the blond Makhno dad, Mrs. Pamfilova sat and gloomily joked about the results. For some reason, everyone fell in unison to the results on Altai (I did not understand, on the Altai Territory or the Altai Republic). Based on the fact that there 32% of voters voted at home, Altai decided to check.
Then I turned, forgive, to the exploits of Mishiko Saakashvili on the Polish-Ukrainian border, because there was more interesting.
In the morning I was told on the radio that in all the 16 regions where governors were elected, United Russia candidates won. News didn't make me cry.
Well, what the governor? The governor in the Russian Federation is not independent, and if he manifests himself as independent, he will be immediately dismissed. As far as I know, there are no independent governors in any country of the world. All countries of the world are tightly centralized. Those that are not centralized, as a rule, disintegrate, and very quickly.
Ilya Yashin, I learned this from the Internet, claims that candidates from his Solidarity in the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow received 7 mandates, and only 3 mandates received United Russia. The election commission did not confirm this information.
However, suppose the information is true.
Based on the fact that a couple of days before the election on the radio, I heard the information that in this election many businessmen of “top management — new people who care about Russia and are critical of the government” will take part in them, I, surprised, he decided that in this way Navalny was preparing for himself the right amount of 110 municipal deputies in XNUMX, so that he could be nominated for the post of mayor of Moscow. (Well, or somewhere else)
And that is why, when I learned about the Miracle in the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow, I thought that the cunning Yashin, left without the leader Nemtsov, would come to Navalny and say: I have seven municipal votes, Alexey Anatolyevich, take it! And Navalny, smiling, will appoint Yashin as his assistant.
Maybe it will, and maybe not. Or maybe the CEC will consider it better and decide that there are no seven mandates.
Or maybe they will take and adopt quickly some new, sophisticated law, in which figs will not need municipal deputies when they nominate a candidate, but, for example, the directors of city dumps will be important, eh?
Glancing our political reality, I can say that the elections have completely lost their meaning.
The opinion of citizens has not lost its meaning, no, but the opinion of citizens is expressed by them not through the election ceremony, but in the form of rumor. Such a multi-voiced opinion, the buzz of such, depending on the number of tears shed at the TV, looking at the ceremony of taking the Crimea into Russia.
I'm not ironic, I dropped a tear myself.
And the opinion is created by the actions of the authorities, because its actions are in our eyes. Let us say why the elections are both governor and municipal, if already people's hearts were won by KrymNash, and those hearts that did not won by KrimNash finish our VKS in Syria to win.
"CrimeaNash" and "VKS in Syria" - this is already a choice, and to go to the most boring electorate to citizens for what reason? And the time is not very much.
There is no reason.
If earlier, the opposition could inform citizens that it was pointless to go to the polls to compete with “crooks and thieves” (the terminology of the opposition), then today there is no sense to go to the polls when it is already clear that they won the power, their CrimeaNashim in Syria.
Again, of course, both CrimeaNash and VKS in Syria - this not only arranged for the authorities, but we also participated, our military, part of the people, but then why go to the polls to vote for ourselves?
It turns out that power is not expelled?
Well, yes, at the moment it turns out.
Temporarily, while winning, the power will win everything. And how will the defeat, here is no longer a fact, not a fact, not a fact ...