Election deliberately shifted to the periphery of public attention. This is my article published today in the “Free press”.
Mid-August of the election year. Before the State Duma elections just over a month. It would seem that the need to be a fierce political fight. But nothing. Do not be surprised if by the time even the vote of the majority of citizens never will know that in the country there are still elections…
The date of the vote, as you know, has suffered since the beginning of winter to the beginning of autumn. This is the end of vacations and the beginning of the school year. So, where are concentrated the voters during the most active election campaign? On vacation: in the southern resorts, in airports and at railway stations, on motorways, which are moving to the South and back. As well as in their native homes, and gardening. It would seem that there should be the peak of campaign activity?
It is clear that to conduct election propaganda in places of public entertainment in respect of parliamentary constituencies is meaningless: the garden and the more southern resorts did to the places of permanent registration and voting citizens are not bound. That is, it is important to understand not an accident, but a deliberate combination of circumstances. Namely: introduction at the same time and majority districts, and earlier, immediately after the recess the vote. It is a deliberate act of sabotage against the very institution of free elections of organs of state power.
Who did it and why? It would seem that the clarity and obviousness of the situation, in itself, would have to generate a powerful campaign slogan. the forces which have alternative election manipulators to punish their vote those who deliberately removes citizens from forming their future. Here they had the majority, and, using them, they shamelessly manipulated the electoral process – so depriving them of this majority! But, unfortunately, nothing like that on their banners, no political force has not.
Further, there is a clear manipulation by the ruling in the previous Duma the majority of the electoral mechanism. I repeat: not just in their favor, but against the voters. It would seem that in these conditions, the main emphasis in the election campaign should be made on the Federal campaign participating companies racing on the reputations and programs of parties and vote not only for their lists, but also for their representatives in majoritarian districts. But this activity, with this emphasis – also not observed.
What occurs? Surprisingly, nothing at all.
This behavior alternative forces is quite in line with the strategy prevailing in the country, the media, explicitly dependent on the current government. That is, some measured messages about the upcoming elections are held periodically, but the form and content they are designed so that in any case, God forbid, nothing to interest the viewer-listener-reader.
And in online media?
Open “Yandex-news” – on the first page of any election news. In the section “politics” the election, and then only rather conditionally can be attributed only to the message about the activity of the Moscow Public chamber, intent to create a public headquarters for the observation of elections. On the very same election campaign – nothing.
Open the “Rambler-news”: the same – nothing.
News mail ru: also nothing. In the same it policy in the subsection “before” – already something. Namely, two news on the election, however, not here, but in the United States – about the confrontation between trump and Clinton…
Finally, I go to the home page of your own (which is published) of the “Free press”: only one article about the upcoming elections, and that is not us, but in the United States – about the next “attack” competitors in trump…
I asked: but what there election news, if they are really not? Answer: what are the election news in the US, and even to write about them, not only in the US but in Russia? Elementary: Clinton – trump answered. So really we have these yet?
In fact, it is almost the only kind of news we have in mainstream media is. But only “said” in our case, not the candidates, not representatives of competing political parties, “the Supreme bearers of truth” – the leaders of the state, and, acting not as the leaders of one of the competing forces, but as a strong Tsar.
Returning to the online media, I emphasize: do not have any complaints to editors of publications. But the overall news context we have just over a month before the vote is obvious: we do not have any elections and is not expected. And if something is expected, it is clearly not an event worthy of media attention.
In this situation, it would seem, to do alternative political forces? Not following the trodden path, not rely on what people on the ground will work and will add five percent to ten or even fifteen to the same results is absolutely nothing on impact. If you want to change the socio-economic policy and the whole situation in the country (and that is what responsible elected Duma now), then you need to somehow change the pre-election atmosphere, to break someone else’s script and unfair game to really use the available opportunities. But this is not visible yet.
Here is an example. The main highway leading to the South, overflowing with reasonably irritated drivers and passengers. In the winter Olympics in Sochi 60 billion dollars, as it turns out, albeit indirectly, but still public funds (non-refundable loans of state banks) invested, and the normal route on the entire length was never built. Traffic jams even on separated approaches – in the Voronezh oblast, but still a “child” trick: paying for the “speed” section, and then throughout standing in hours-long traffic jam, because once paid for a plot – solid never-ending fixation with the left for movement only one strip …
Here, it would seem, to place an election poster of an alternative political force with a clear slogan in connection with our main problem – the decaying corrupt system of power. But instead – just posters with the names of the parties, the most toothless slogan, like that party “X” – for the working people…
Say: I am of course not interested in any alternative power, in particular, not podsiadlo-liberal (comprehensively represented in the current government, as evidenced by real current socio-economic policies), but a genuine alternative. In the current Sardegna-oligarchic context, the left and nationally oriented.
Of course, we can assume that the pre-election headquarters of parties adopted the tactic of not spraying the forces on the vacation of ease and mass of idealism and of concentration of means and efforts the last two weeks of the race, when from the former vacation complacency is already not a trace remains, and the grip of the current problems remind myself and re-shrink potential voters.
All things are possible. The electoral tactics of political forces define for themselves. But for now, a month before the upcoming elections, the behavior of competing forces seems a bit strange and more like the behavior of players of a fixed match when special efforts are made, in General, there is no need. God forbid that I was wrong, and subsequent periods of the campaign showed me wrong.
P.S. The article is accompanied by editorial comment – a reminder that the official electoral campaign in the media, the law will not begin until 28 days before election day. But in the article it’s not about the location of the parties paid campaign materials, but about news in our media (by the way, trump over the article about him in our media is not paid from the election Fund), and the contents of the posters have already hosted parties.
