Moscow - Simferopol, September 16 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Only United Russia and the Liberal Democratic Party will be represented in the State Council of Crimea and the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which was unable to overcome the five percent barrier in both regions, explains the defeat by “dishonest” calculations.
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After processing about 55% of the protocols for a single district, the communists had 4,3% (passage barrier - 5%). The chairman of the election commission of the republic, Mikhail Malyshev, refused to predict how the position of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will change after processing all the protocols. He explained to Kommersant that “the Communist Party of the Russian Federation got a somewhat underestimated result due to the fact that approximately 3% of its electorate was taken over by two other communist parties” and the Communist Party voter “could have made a mistake.” “Communists of Russia” and the CPSU took part in the elections.
State Duma deputy Nikolai Kolomiytsev, who headed the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the elections to the State Council of Crimea, believes that the party did not get into parliament due to an “unfair” fight. “Ballots for United Russia were thrown in,” he believes.
A high-ranking Kommersant source in the federal leadership of United Russia yesterday urged “not to rush to conclusions and wait for the final count of votes.”
The percentage of votes of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, according to United Russia, may increase after the final count of votes in Kerch. At the same time, the publication’s interlocutor noted that “the communists practically did not conduct a campaign in the region, but only hung posters with Zyuganov.”
On the eve of the elections, the acting head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, and a member of the presidium of the Crimean United Russia, Konstantin Bakharev, said that most likely there would be three parties in parliament - United Russia, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.