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With almost all of Navaln’s allies unable to run in the elections, his team says it supports a total of 1,234 candidates in the lower house and local assembly elections of the Russian state Duma, which begin on Friday.
September 17-19. Russia is holding elections for the State Duma. [Prokremliška valdančioji partija] “United Russia will try to stay in power for another 5 years,” Navaln said in a video added to YouTube on Wednesday.
“We can prevent this through smart voting, a strategy that combines the voters’ votes against a united Russia,” he said.
The vast majority of contenders supported by Navaln’s online “Smart Voting” project in 85 Russian regions are members of the Communist Party, Russia’s second-largest bloc after the prophetic “United Russia.”
This is followed by dozens of members of the Liberal Democratic Nationalist Party (LDPR), Just Russia, For the Truth and the Russian Patriots, both represented in the State Duma, as well as a string of veterans and emerging non-members. parliamentary parties, and emerging candidates themselves.
2019 Navaln began advocating a “smart voting” strategy after many independent and opposition candidates were barred from running for the Moscow legislature.
This year, his team renewed their appeals after Navalnas was jailed on former charges of returning to Russia and his networks were banned by “extremists,” preventing his allies from running for office.
Since then, the Russian authorities have blocked dozens of Navaln-related websites and attempted to block online tools that allow users to use Navaln’s Smart Voting app.
Meanwhile, Russian courts are fining millions of giants like Google and Apple for what authorities call “election interference” because they did not remove “Smart Voting” devices from search results.
Navaln’s team said it had not released the full list of Smart Voting candidates until the last minute so authorities could not legally remove them from the electoral list.
Although United Russia’s ratings in society are low, Putin’s party members are expected to retain the majority and pursue his policies almost unhindered for the next five years.
Prepared according to The Moscow Times inf.
