Exactly a year ago, United Russia announced a “reversal into the regions” and since then it hasn’t gotten off this course, the secretary of the General Council of the party Andrei Turchak recalled. He spoke to the delegates of the XXXI Conference of the St. Petersburg Registrar of the EP.

"We do not make decisions within the Garden Ring, without consulting with our regional offices," the party member explained, the press service of United Russia reports.. All proposals, he assured, will be considered and taken into account in the final decisions of the congress.. According to Turchak, the initiatives coming from the regions are different, but they are united by caring "authors". “The future of United Russia depends on how we work with voters in the inter-election period, on how people feel that their opinions are heard and taken into account,” he stressed, calling the main condition for evaluating performance. According to Turchak, journalists, experts and ordinary people should “release” the review of the activities of the ruling party at least once a quarter.. In addition, in his speech, the Secretary of the General Council recalled that last summer, the EP launched a new project - the Center for Support of Civil Initiatives. "Not a single political force has the potential of political lobbying and the possibility of supporting public initiatives like United Russia.". It is necessary to carefully consider the mechanism of such support, to ensure that any active citizen knows and was sure that the shortest way to implement his socially significant initiative is to contact us for support, ”Turchak. He also praised the work of public reception offices, noting their importance. And determined another direction of party activity - this is an increase in openness and transparency of all procedures.. "United Russia should become the first Digital Party, and this is also the most important direction for its renewal," said United Russia, telling about voting at a distance. “Preliminary voting in the framework of the municipal campaign in St. Petersburg in 2019 will necessarily include the possibility of remote electronic voting, which we will also fix at the December congress,” Turchak concluded.. By the way, the XVIII Congress of "United Russia" will be held December 7-8 in Moscow.