Crimean media write about the illusion of elections on September 14
Simferopol, September 21 (PolitNavigator, Evgeny Andreev) – The first Russian elections in Crimea, in which the United Russia party received full power on the peninsula, were held in the best traditions of the CPSU.
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The weekly “Events” writes about this.
“Alas, times change, the names of political parties change, but not the morals of Crimean politics. Almost everywhere where there were strong opposition candidates, they were removed from the elections, and the candidates proposed by the Crimean leadership turned out to be in the majority either relics of past days from among the regionals, or personally loyal people,” the publication notes.
According to Events, three groups of influence have formed within the ruling party. The most significant is the speaker Vladimir Konstantinov, which included personnel from the scandalous construction company “Consol”, as well as the remnants of the unsinkable “Makeevsky”, coupled with ex-regionals such as Pyotr Zaporozhets and Efim Fiks who survived all the authorities. Another group is the head of Somin Sergei Aksenov, which brought together business partners and close relatives of the official. The third is the “gray eminence” of the past elections, Sergei Tsekov, uniting the politician’s comrades in the “Russian Community of Crimea”.
The LDPR, which received five seats and gathered in its ranks a native of the Tsekov-Aksenov party “Russian Unity” Sergei Shuvainikov and entrepreneurs, will play the role of the latter in the Crimean “bloc of communists and non-party people”:
“As a result, the balance of power in the new parliament of Crimea will become even more “harmonious” than in the previous composition. There will no longer be deputies from the “People's Movement of Ukraine” and the “Union” party who are uncomfortable for the authorities. The Russian parliamentary parties of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia did not pass, and businessmen from the Liberal Democratic Party who received parliamentary badges are unlikely to pretend to be troublemakers in the new parliament, but the non-public struggle that will inevitably be waged between various groups of influence within the ruling party itself may be interesting.” “Events” summarizes.
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