United Russia will hold open primaries every year
The United Russia party will annually hold open primaries for five years to determine candidates for deputies of regional legislative assemblies. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced this today, speaking at the party congress.
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“Last May, a single day of preliminary voting was held for the first time. Party and non-party candidates of United Russia had to go through this procedure and participate in debates. But in fact, voters themselves formed the election list of our party. No other party trusted people with this process,” Medvedev said.
According to him, 10 million people came to sites across Russia.
“It was a unique experience for each of us. No one has ever conducted such a large-scale preliminary vote anywhere,” Medvedev said.
He believes that this was one of the reasons that the party was able to form a constitutional majority in the State Duma last year.
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