The Duma elections scheduled for 18 September 2016. According to the head of the CEC of Russia Vladimir Churov, the electoral campaign the upcoming elections will differ from the campaign a single day of voting and will be the most competitive over the last 10 years.
MOSCOW, 26 Nov. Passed in Russia this year election campaign on the single voting day was not a warm-up before the Duma elections of 2016, because the preparation for it began with a relatively clean slate, believes the CEC head Vladimir Churov.
On the single voting day on September 13 in the Russian Federation underwent elective campaigns of various level, including elections of heads of subjects of Federation. The Duma elections scheduled for 18 September 2016.
“The single voting day 2015 became a General warm-up before the Federal elections of 2016”, — said the head of the Central election Commission at the plenary meeting of the public scientific and methodological Advisory Council under the CEC of Russia on Thursday.
He explained that the Federal election campaign is always different from regional and municipal. According to him, the scale of the single day of voting next year will be much more modest, not ten thousand of election campaigns of different level as this year.
“Campaign 2016 is already under way, it starts with a relatively clean slate, because of course all the parties and candidates analyze the experience of the previous campaigns, primarily parliamentary,” — said Churov.
Not held a single day of rehearsal and vote for the electoral system, the elections next year will also be different.
“Will work approximately 830 thousand members of precinct election commissions will work of the territorial election Commission with the increased load, because most likely some of these will lay the responsibilities of the district electoral commissions on the elections of the second half of the state Duma”, — he added.
The head of the CEC it does not doubt that “the 2016 elections in the state Duma will be the most vibrant and competitive campaign in the last 10 years.”
