“Over the last 9 months, the party entered 12 thousand people”, — said Gennady Zyuganov. “Mostly young people”, — he said and offered to take the party to a new generation. Students of Moscow universities, drivers, managers, entrepreneurs, cashiers and even the Directors received from the hands of the leader of the Communist party ticket, and cloves. Gennady Zyuganov was photographed with young people (some of them, however, the hair shone gray) and started his two-hour report.
The elections to the state Duma, according to Zyuganov, will go down in history as the most dirty and dishonest. “In fact, we all witnessed the electoral campaign and special operations. It was aimed at achieving a predetermined result,” he said and then explained that meant: voters misled a large number of political parties, the election of half of deputies in single-mandate constituencies was beneficial only “United Russia” because the district was given into the hands “of local warlords and money bags”, the ruling party dominated the news channels. Using “petal” districting, which linked urban and rural areas, according to the leader of the Communist party, the authorities leveled a high rating of the Communist party in the cities. “How to “petal” the cuts worked, well illustrated by the example of Novosibirsk single-member districts, where there was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist party Andrey Zhirnov — gave an example of Zyuganov. — In the regional center, he received 32 percent of votes, while in rural areas less than half”. Alerted the leader of the Communist party and low turnout, and that the “United Russia”, “exploited” the image of “Putin’s party”, and “dirty rag”, produced against the Communist party.
Not spared the Communist leader and internal party problems that led to low score in the elections. The Communist party retained the core of their constituents, but are unable to extend support. A number of organizations were not working in full force. Zyuganov added that during the election, the party acutely felt the shortage of personnel. “A number of organizations not able to develop human resource potential,” he explained. According to the leader of the Communist party, it is impossible to fully run a campaign when “the hand remained 5-10 bayonets” and not complete the work with young people. The last question at the Plenum paid special attention to: in the adopted resolution speaks of the need to strengthen this area and provide training for party work with young people. “We set a goal to prepare 1,000 talented young workers — said Zyuganov. — 650 people for a personnel reserve already prepared.”
In addition, the leader of the party declared the special appeal of personnel dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October revolution. However, as explained “MK” the Deputy of the state Duma Dmitry Novikov, responsible for this area, the practice is not for the Communist party, something new, similar appeal in the context relevant for party event is held not for the first time. “Ongoing work will simply be supplemented by additional shares,” he explained. In addition, Zyuganov called for the “find new images and arguments to explain the essence of the Soviet era”, to increase the party’s presence in social networks and carry out more large-scale protests. “The combination of internal and external crises make the situation extremely dangerous. In these conditions, the need to mobilize the capabilities of the Communist party in the struggle for the interests of workers, for the return of the country to the path of socialist development”, — stated in the decree of the Plenum. Their goal is to “to lead the people’s protest against the policy of the party “United Russia” and to prevent its use by external forces contrary to the interests of the people.”
Vice-President of the Center for political technologies, Alexei MAKARKIN notes that, despite the stated youth work, a significant part of the assets of the Communist party is still afraid of joining the party. Such party is — for example Denis Parfenov, who was elected to the state Duma in single-mandate district in Moscow. However, the core of the party, according to Makarkin, still constitute “the policy age category Gennady Zyuganov, Ivan Melnikov and Sergey Obukhov,” that is, from 50 to 70. The analyst notes that call shots in the party for the 100th anniversary of the October revolution — more of a symbolic act. “Young people come to the party without it, says Makarkin. — Mostly, of course, ideologically configured. Focused on career — unlikely, because to make a career in the Communist party youth quite difficult.” The analyst does not exclude that in the near future in the party will be a question of replacement of Gennady Zyuganov, though, to find anyone comparable to them in popularity, is no easy task.
