Supporters of Zyuganov are forced to admit that the electoral company of the Communist Party failed. The ambitious goal of "taking the majority" of municipal mandates in the capital, can not be achieved, stated the head of the City Party Committee Valery Rashkin.
The leader of the Moscow branch of the Communist Party said: "We will come out with an initiative on September 10 to not participate at all in the elections, neither presidential, nor gubernatorial, nor mayor's in Moscow, if they follow such rules to hold elections". At the same time he acknowledged that this is the position of the Moscow city committee.
According to the political scientist Alexei Martynov, this statement puts the communists under the straw. According to him, "in the past two weeks, the CPRF headquarters in Moscow are not so much campaigning as sending signals to their capital's nuclear electorate about the futility of their participation in municipal elections. Having gone through the slippery path of deligitimation at the final stage of the campaign, the technologists of the Communist Party's MGCs are reducing to zero the small chances of Communist candidates. first this strange rally on Aug 30. at the mayoralty with the participation of all candidates. then the press on the same theses ... their grandmothers simply will not come (they do not have another electorate for Communists in Moscow) to vote - they impose their own party leaders on the idea that "everything is predetermined, and the CPRF candidates have no chance to beat someone from the party of power ". That is, the city organization of the Communist Party itself drains turnout and does not want to improve that result. which is already there. slyly. In the Leninist ".
The situation with the municipal elections in Moscow is becoming crucial for the political fate of Valery Rashkin, the director of the consulting agency NPR Group Dmitry Fetisov. At the same time, the political scientist notes that Rashkin's ambitions extend to the position of the chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, but after the elections to the Duma his influence in the party significantly weakened, and the municipal elections in Moscow were an opportunity for the head of the Moscow City Council to return some of the lost positions. So Rashkin's press conference, according to him, "on which he talks about violations in the elections before the voting day, is not just a recognition of his own defeat. This is an attempt to justify the leadership of the party for the "surrender of Moscow", which took place almost without a fight.
"The CPRF campaign has not received a whole image, the Communists are even inferior to the candidates from the Gudkov-Katz project by presence in the agitation field, although there are many questions to the quality of their agitation. The most surprising thing is that the Communists this time could not even propose a program for the development of the Moscow LSG, which they always used to build their campaign, "Fetisov wrote in his Facebook, noting that" the already formed failure in the elections of the Moscow soundings 2017 is superimposed on the failure of the Communist Party in Moscow in the elections to the Duma-2016, as a result of which the mandate was received only by Rashkin, and the party sponsor Vadim Kumin was overboard the State Duma, and the devastating defeat of Rashkin himself in a single-seat district at the State Duma.
The combination of these failures may lead to the resignation of Rashkin from the post of the leader of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party ". In his opinion. In the near future we will see at the head of the Moscow Communists not Rashkin, but Andrei Klychkov or Leonid Zyuganov.
Earlier, according to RBC, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov demanded from the city committee to refrain from not recognizing the elections in Moscow. The scandal began after the press release of the Moscow branch, which contained a statement of non-recognition of the election a week before the vote itself.