They will establish total public control over the elections in Russia

On September 9, the Russian Federation will host a single voting day. They are preparing for the election of State Duma deputies, regional legislative assemblies and city councils in 80 regions of Russia. However, the main attention of the public is focused on the governor's campaigns, which take place in 22 subjects of the Federation. "The Parliamentary Newspaper" reports.

The experts of the Public Chamber conducted monitoring in these 22 regions and compared data on the current elections and those that took place earlier. As a result, several regularities were established. Firstly, practically the same number of registered candidates was registered: if in the last elections the election commissions registered 107 people, then on these - 103. Secondly, almost twice (from 75 to 35) the number of candidates withdrawn in registration during the campaign has decreased.

The largest number of registered candidates, according to public monitoring, falls on parties actively participating in electoral campaigns at the municipal level. For example, the LDPR nominated 20 candidates for the gubernatorial position, United Russia - 19, Just Russia (Spraveldivaia Rossia) - 19, and the Communist Party - 17. The number of candidates from non-parliamentary parties is two times three times less: for example, from the "Party of Growth" seven people, from the "Patriots of Russia" - three, and from the "Communists of Russia" - only two people. Totally, four parliamentary parties, most active in the regions, nominated 75 people - against 25 of all other political forces and movements.

In addition to candidates from one-day parties, those who started the election campaign solely for the purposes of self-promotion could not register for participation in the elections. And in this, according to experts, the merit of the so-called municipal filter is invaluable - the need for candidates for the post of regional leader to collect the necessary number of signatures of deputies working at the local level.

The experts paid much attention to the issue of public monitoring of the upcoming elections. The CEC, in cooperation with public associations, aimed at the legality and transparency of all election procedures. In this they will be helped by the wide use of KOIB, video surveillance systems, electronic control over vote counting and most importantly - the participation of independent observers.

If in previous years the election was observed mainly by supporters of political parties, which allowed covering not more than half of the total number of polling stations with observation, the technology of public control at the expense of observers from regional public chambers was tested for the first time in the March elections of the head of state. Thanks to amendments to the legislation that came into force in early July, now this practice can be implemented at elections of all levels.

The experts noted that recent amendments to the federal legislation have established the leading role of the system of public chambers in organizing public control over the elections.