Voter turnout in the elections in Karelia, according to 15:00 local time, was about 17 percent. Such information was sounded by the representative of the election commission during the online marathon "Election night - 2017" on Sunday, September 10, the correspondent of "Tapes. RU". The participants of the event noted that the indicators for attendance were affected, in particular, by bad weather. "The whole day we have bad weather, in some areas rains all day," - said the political consultant Ivan Fedorov. Political scientist Dmitry Orlov, in turn, noted that in general for Russia the expected figures for the turnout. Direct elections of the head of Karelia are held for the first time since 2002. They involve four people. In addition to the acting head of the republic Arthur Parfenchikov ("United Russia"), this is the leader of the regional branch of the Communist Party, Yevgeny Ulyanov, the chairman of Karelian referrals Irina Peteleva and the representative of the LDPR Yevgeny Besedny.

Nikolai Tarakanov (Rodina), Elena Gnetova (Party of Growth) and Olga Ilyukova (Patriots of Russia) - withdrew their candidatures. On February 15, President Vladimir Putin accepted the early resignation of Alexander Khudilainen, who had been in charge of Karelia since 2012, and appointed the acting head of the republic, Artur Parfenchikov. Prior to that, he headed the Federal Bailiff Service.

Original article: Yavka in Karelia was written off on bad weather.